headache on build repeatibility: octave vs BLODA ?
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 08:38:00 GMT 2020
Am 26.01.2020 um 09:05 schrieb ASSI:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> at least I know that is not just my machine.
>> When I released the package was
>>
>>
>> libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc-tst
>> ............................... PASS 90/90
>
> Based on the test name there may be an assumption built into the code
> about how the filesystem behaves that isn't guaranteed on Windows/Cygwin
> or even POSIX. If it's simply an error condition not getting checked it
> should be reproducible under debugging, but you're mostly out of luck if
> it's relying on a specific order or atomicity of certain operations, as
> debugging will almost always serialize the execution to the point where
> these types of errors do not manifest.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
the other problem of debugging is that the backtrace is trash
after the segfault and that of course Octave is a
400 Kg gorilla with all its dependencies..
I will try anyway
Thanks
Marco
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