[LLVMdev] infinite looping on hashtables

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:08 PM, John McCall wrote:

>>
>> This test works fine, so long as it passes.  If the observed failure
>> happens, it hangs at the set.count(2) call, and the Googletest
>> framework apparently doesn't catch hangs.  (At least, it didn't wake
>> up after twenty minutes.)
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like the current Googletest framework doesn't
> support test timeouts or anything like them.  You could probably hack
> it by creating a thread to sleep() for five seconds and then kill the
> current process, but ugh.

My take is: just add the test.  If it infinite loops, then we'll know  
there is a problem.

:)