Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Robert,
Pending msvc-stlport issue aside,
I commented this accordingly.
the serialization library reports show quite a few failures with other toolsets, in particular:
cw-9.3 borland-5.6.4 cw-8.3 msvc vc7
I'm sure you've well aware of these; what I'd like to ask you is to comment on them in the "explicit-failures-markup.xml" in the similar way you commented on "*_warchive" tests, so that a) the library users are not scared away by all these yellow cells, and b) the release manager and everybody else besides the author have a simple way of telling whether the library is in the OK state or not.
I've been looking at this for a while procrastinated doing anything until I was sure what to do. So far this has been an effective strategy. Many times failures just disappeared as arcane tooI set issues were resolved. I still have some doubts about how to handle the remaining cases. Metrowerks compilers (cw*) seem to suffer from over-zealous optimization that eliminates static variables not referred to explicitly by name. Other compilers do this as well, but I've managed to workaround this in various ways. Cw* is the last hold out on this issue. I had hoped someone who is interested in this can test it might be motivated to look into it but it seems that there isn't enough interest. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll mark these tests as "expected". I would love to see this fixed - but for this Metrowerks would have an almost perfect showing. I do think its very high quality product that handles platforms that others don't. Its pains me that the serialization library test don't reflect this. A number of these (msvc, vc7, borland) have been determined to be manifestations of compiler deficiencies so I will mark them so. Some the borland test don't fail on my own test setup - so for me they are indeed "unexpected failures" - I think leaving this yellow is the correct characterization. That leaves a number of miscellaneous failures which really aren't understood or explained. Personally I would like to leave these as they are as to mey they really are "unexpected failures". I realize that some might be dissuaded from using the library because of this - but I think that's better than having someone use the library and not have it meet expectations. Robert Ramey