timeouts/malloc failures in ada tests?

[Simon Wright]

On 7 Jul 2017, at 22:31, Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I see large numbers of timeouts in Ada tests on trunk in parallel
> run s (make -j96) on x86_64.  Messages like the one below appear
> in the logs, suggesting some sort of heap corruption.  I'm having
> trouble reproducing it outside the rest of the test suite (i.e.,
> by just running the Ada tests by themselves) but maybe I'm doing
> it wrong.  Unless this is a known problem I can try to pinpoint
> it closer if someone could share the magic spell to run just Ada
> tests to speed up the debugging.

make check-gnat

check-ada runs the acats tests and then the gnat tests
check-acats runs just the acats tests
check-gnat runs just the gnat tests (and your problem is in the gnat tests; the acats tests don't use gnatclean)