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Re: MI failures related to string printing

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:59:23PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > Don't you think that a test that randomly fails depending on compiler
>  > version and the address at which the binary happens to load is completely
>  > useless.  
> 
> It has value because it doesn't fail for everyone.

Sorry, Vladimir is correct.  A test which fails intermittently (and
even if it's consistent for some people that doesn't change the fact
that this is a fundamentally intermittent problem) is not a good test.

> By keeping the previous results and comparing them.  I always get many fails
> when I run the testsuite.

I am working on eliminating every single one of those failures; please

do not add more.
-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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