[PING][PATCH] stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow: Bump timeout up yet more

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> >>  In our routine testing I observed that stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow is very 
> >> slow, especially on targets using soft-float or QEMU (where soft-float is 
> >> used internally), enough to time out even on slow boards we have that have 
> >> TIMEOUTFACTOR already bumped from the default of 1 up to 75.
> >>
> >>  No other test case requires such a long timeout -- all the other 
> >> succeeding cases fit within their timeouts scaled by TIMEOUTFACTOR on 
> >> these boards.  As such I think it's counter-productive to require 
> >> TIMEOUTFACTOR to be set as high as 450 globally for this lone outlier as 
> >> the value affects overall testing duration where there are test cases that 
> >> genuinely time out due to a defect.  Therefore I propose the following 
> >> change that makes stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow pass on these slow boards 
> >> with TIMEOUTFACTOR of 75.
> >  Ping!
> >
> I don't have any objection to the patch, the explanation seems fair enough. 

 Thanks for your input.  Any other comments, anyone, or shall I treat it 
as the consensus?

  Maciej