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

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Will Newton 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?
> 
> The change looks ok to me too.

 Applied now, thanks!

  Maciej