[LLVMdev] Why buildbot sanitizer-ppc64-linux1 blames r239459?

[Yury Gribov]

On 06/10/2015 10:18 AM, Yaron Keren wrote:
> I'm trying to understand why the buildbot sanitizer-ppc64-linux1 fails due
> to my latest patch. It was in llvm::GlobalValue while the reported failure
> is:
>
> strcspn-2.c.tmp:
> /home/buildbots/sanitizerslave1/sanitizer-ppc64-1/build/llvm/projects/compiler-rt/test/asan/TestCases/strcspn-2.c:17:
> int main(int, char **): Assertion `r == sizeof(s1) - 1' failed.
>
> where strcspn-2.c (below) tests the strcspn function and does not use any
> header from LLVM, completely unrelated to GlobalValue.
> Yet, the buildbot reports that r239457 and r239458 were built OK and the
> failure started in my patch r239459:
>
>    http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer-ppc64-linux1
>
> Why is the builbot blaiming r239459? is this a buildbot bug?

Hi Yaron,

It's not about your patch - the testcase was flaky which should now be 
fixed with r239461.

-Y