[llvm-testresults] buildbot failure in llvm on dragonegg-i386-linux

[Eric Christopher]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Duncan Sands wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
>>>> Non-determinism! The dragonegg selfhost compared object files it built
>>>> at different stages, and they weren't the same. I guess this might be
>>>> due to echristo's inline cost changes.
>>> 
>>> ... Those were Sunday though. No costs changed yesterday, might be some
>>> caching effects though. I'll take a look.
>> 
>> I've reverted for now to see if it fixes it, but a quick question. From looking
>> at the output of the script it looks like it is comparing the output of
>> stage 0 vs the output of stage 1? Or is that just an artifact of the script?
> 
> thanks for reverting your patch.  The stages are not exactly the same as with a
> gcc bootstrap.  In stage 0, LLVM and dragonegg are built with gcc, but dragonegg
> is then immediately rebuilt with itself, creating the object files that are used
> for the comparison.  So these object files are analogous to the object files
> produced by stage1 of a gcc bootstrap.

OK, that's a bit better. I'd like some sort of test case if you can arrange it
though. I didn't see anything in the patch that could cause this sort of issue.

-eric
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