[LLVMdev] status of EH tests in llvm test-suite

[Dale Johannesen]

On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:20 PMPST, Jose Rangel wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
> Thanks for replying. Concerning Darwin, I compiled this test on snow  
> leopard and ran it using rosetta (that is, using –arch ppc –m32). I  
> will try this later on leopard.

Yes, it passed sometimes for me too.  I no longer have the exact  
results, but there was no correlation with compiler or target.

>  Thanks,
>
> Jose
>
>
> From: Dale Johannesen [mailto:dalej at apple.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:10 PM
> To: Jose Rangel
> Cc: Dale Johannesen; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] status of EH tests in llvm test-suite
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:01 PMPST, Jose Rangel wrote:
>> 2) The following test is commented out on purpose:
>> MultiSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++-EH/spirit
>>
>> Should this test still be commented out? It’s actually has the most  
>> lines of code of all your tests and seems quite useful. In  
>> addition, it seems to work for us. Is there something wrong with  
>> this test (e.g. buggy test?). Or is (or was) llvm buggy when  
>> running this test?
>
> I looked at this at one point; it got very inconsistent failures in  
> several different Darwin environments, both ppc and x86, both gcc  
> and llvm-gcc.   It looked like a memory error of some kind, wild  
> load or store somewhere, use-after-free, something like that.  It  
> was not I who disabled it but my data led me to agree with that  
> decision.
>

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