Spurious testsuite failures on multi-cpu sparc-solaris2.9

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:28:00PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
 > > I'm trying to test GCC on a 4 cpu sparc-sun-solaris2.9 box using
 > > expect-5.42.1, tcl8.4.7 and dejagnu-1.4.4.  I'm getting lots of
 > > spurious testsuite failures probably related to the solaris
 > > kernel bug mentioned here:
 > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-04/msg01480.html
 > > 
 > > Does any one know if bug 4927647 is addressed in any patch from Sun
 > > yet?
 > 
 > According to SUN a fix has been integrated into Sol10 and a patch for
 > Sol9 will be release RSN. We were provided with a T-patch (raw
 > binaries not an officially released patch) in response to my bug
 > report.

I'm curious about whether this patch will be part of the "recommended"
bundle, and thus available to those without a sunsolve account.  It'll
likely be part of the "recommended" set if the fix is located in files
already in that bundle.  Are you able to figure that out?  (Or simply
list the files and I'll try and determine it.)

At one point I worked for a company who received a "T" patch and I was
able to coax sun into releasing an official patch sooner.  I did this
at the time because I felt that the more people using the code (more
than just me!), the more likely it didn't have some other horrible
problem. :-)

Do you think you could prod sun into releasing this officially more
quickly?  I know that I personally would be able to be more productive
if I could run the testsuite in parallel and post results more
quickly.


 > > Is the expect patch mentioned here helpful at all?
 > > http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/expect-5.39/pr12096.patch
 > 
 > It didn't fix things for me, but it doesn't hurt either.
 >     regards   Christian

That patch didn't fix the problem for me either.

		Thanks,
		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu