Re: RFC: branching for GDB 7.11 soon? (possibly Wed)

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>]

On 16-02-09 09:18 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 02:14 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> On 16-02-09 12:35 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>>> Today, Simon pushed a commit that caused a few regressions on Ada, on
>>> some builders.  This is:
>>>
>>>   <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2016-q1/msg04420.html>
>>
>> I'll look into it right now.  I did not receive anything from the
>> buildbot, is it normal?
> 
> Yes, only build breakages get you a nag email.  "Normal" testsuite
> regressions don't result in personal notifications, because the testsuite
> still trips on too many racy failures.  Once the testing infrustructure handles
> racy tests more gracefully, and testing is more stable, I think we should
> enable personal nags, but not yet.

Ok, my understanding was that I broke some previously passing tests.  Upon
inspection, it seems like before my commit, a lot of Ada tests simply were
not running.  For example:

  FAIL: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: compilation foo.adb

becomes

  PASS: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: compilation foo.adb
  FAIL: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: print bt

Which introduces new FAILs.  But there is no previously passing test that
now fails, I think.  So if that's the case, I don't think it should block
the release.

Also, I don't have all those failures when I run the testsuite on my machine,
so I don't really know what causes them.