[Bug other/18961] Large output causes testsuite failure

[chris at bubblescope dot net]

------- Additional Comments From chris at bubblescope dot net  2004-12-13 17:56 -------
I'm fairly sure it's not a timeout (It takes <5 seconds to run on my computer).
It might be a dejagnu bug. Unfortunatly I find it very hard to find out exactly
what is causing this bug.

While I agree that allowing program's output to run out of control is a bad
idea, the problem with the current cutoff system is that it seems quite
unreliable. Around the mark at which the bug occurs (round about 200,000-300,000
characters on my computer) the test will sometimes run and sometimes fail. This
kind of unpredictable behaviour led me to a merry afternoon of debugging (I was
writing a test which outputed a large quantity of state information for testing
reasons) as it randomly appeared and disappeared. I do think that the behaviour
could be more reliable, and at least better documented.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18961