I seem to recall that compilers on Cray systems were (and still are) huge offenders in the spewing meaningless output department. I like the "blacklist" suggestion.
--Richard On 3/18/13 9:27 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com > <mailto:knepley at gmail.com>> wrote: > > You can always turn that switch off for your test. What we were > finding is that some crappy compilers > were killing everything by putting in meaningless output for every > compile. We don't rip it out because > maybe those compilers die and we flip the switch in the new release. > > > What about a blacklist containing output that we do interpret as failure? -- Richard Tran Mills, Ph.D. Computational Earth Scientist | Joint Assistant Professor Hydrogeochemical Dynamics Team | EECS and Earth & Planetary Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory | University of Tennessee, Knoxville E-mail: rmills at ornl.gov V: 865-241-3198 http://climate.ornl.gov/~rmills -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130319/614734a6/attachment.html>
