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Re: MI failures related to string printing
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:59:23PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Don't you think that a test that randomly fails depending on compiler
> > version and the address at which the binary happens to load is completely
> > useless.
>
> It has value because it doesn't fail for everyone.
Sorry, Vladimir is correct. A test which fails intermittently (and
even if it's consistent for some people that doesn't change the fact
that this is a fundamentally intermittent problem) is not a good test.
> By keeping the previous results and comparing them. I always get many fails
> when I run the testsuite.
I am working on eliminating every single one of those failures; please
do not add more.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery