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Re: tree-ssa-cvs corrupt
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:29:12AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jan 2003, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > I got lots of failures in the testsuite due to missing first characters.
> >
> > Note the missing "/" at the beginning of the line:
> > arthur:/cvs/gcc-tree-ssa-20020619-branch/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile:[0]
> > $ head 20001226-1.c
> >
> This one is on purpose. I added an explicit syntax error to
> avoid blowing up memory usage. When building SSA we start
> allocating more and more memory until eventually timing out and
> thrashing the machine to death.
>
> I couldn't XFAIL it because the harness still tries to compile
> the testcase first.
Might I suggest a self-documenting way of causing an immediate syntax error?
CRASH NOW, there are memeory problems blah blah blah
/* This testcase exposed two branch shortening bugs on powerpc. */
...
:-)
Phil
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