libstdc++ test suite still drives machine into swap

[Stephen M. Webb]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:

> .....I'll be the first one to suggest re-pathologicalizing (!) the
> size function arguments once we can make DG force the limits properly.
> 
> Having the machine kill itself for 5-15 minutes on every test run is
> just annoying.  It does however force us to take a typing break.
> 
> I could also work up a patch to artificially limit max_size()/npos.
> That could conceivably be useful to users in any case.

Keep in mind that all of the max_size member functions are broken for
all the containers, it's just that there are no automated testsuite entires for
them (yet).  


Stephen M. Webb