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Re: [rfa/testsuite] make annota1 regexps more generous
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: drow at mvista dot com, fnasser at redhat dot com
- Cc: carlton at math dot stanford dot edu, ezannoni at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, kevinb at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:01:57 -0600
- Subject: Re: [rfa/testsuite] make annota1 regexps more generous
David Carlton wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how many unexpected failures should I be
> getting? I'm usually getting 100 or so, which seems like an
> unfortunately large number to me: either GDB has lots of regressions,
> or the testsuite is misdiagnosing passes as failures, or there are
> lots of FAILs that should be changed to XFAIL. I'm hoping that many
> of them are misdiagnoses; maybe I'll spend some time looking at that
> when I'm not teaching and when I'm sick of symbol tables.
Short answer: 50 to 100 at this point in history.
Long answer: it depends a lot on the compiler and the debug format.
See http://www.shout.net/~mec/sunday/2002-11-25/index.html and
then look at the "Counts" table for the counts that I am getting.
Michael C