[Concepts] stl_concept_covering test
This test is failing on a whole lot of compilers. For instance, see: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/ developer/issues.html Actually, a quick review shows that it fails on every compiler out there :) Normally, I'd blame the test itself, but given that this test was meticulously crafted to poke at the corner cases of STL implementations, it's very likely that the test is correct. Would someone volunteer to check out the errors and mark failures in explicit-failures-markup.xml appropriately? Doug
On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:
This test is failing on a whole lot of compilers.
The reason why it suddenly fails is that it was erroneously never included in the regression checks in the past, as Dave Abrahams found out last week when I tried to get the concept checking tutorial examples to work. The errors are probably mostly in the test and not the libraries. One error is that at some places a random_access_iterator_archetype is used instead of a mutable_random_access_iterator_archetype. Jeremy knows about the problem but might be too busy to fix it right away. I could volunteer to try to fix the test. Matthias
Doug Gregor <dgregor@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
This test is failing on a whole lot of compilers. For instance, see:
http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/ developer/issues.html
Actually, a quick review shows that it fails on every compiler out there :) Normally, I'd blame the test itself, but given that this test was meticulously crafted to poke at the corner cases of STL implementations, it's very likely that the test is correct. Would someone volunteer to check out the errors and mark failures in explicit-failures-markup.xml appropriately?
Last week as Matthias Troyer and I were preparing slides for a class, we decided to try out one of the examples from the test. It turned out that the test wasn't in the test suite. Here's an excerpt of a chat with Jeremy: boostdave: Hi, J! jeremysiek: Hi Dave! jeremysiek: Are you in Switzerland? boostdave: You bet! Matthias just found a problem with the concept check tests jeremysiek: cool (about being in Switzerland, not the problem!) boostdave: Yes, very. --- The stl_coverage test is invoked in libs/concept_check/Jamfile boostdave: However, status/Jamfile just goes on running the other concept_check tests and never subincludes the Jamfile boostdave: The coverage test is failing for matthias when he tries to run it. boostdave: Do you want me to fix status/Jamfile so you start getting error reports? ;-) jeremysiek: sure jeremysiek: so yeah, thanks for offering to fix the Jamfile boostdave: OK. It's going on the release branch too, since after all this is the time to fix bugs for the point release. jeremysiek: nod jeremysiek: just one thing to note, stl_concept_covering.cpp is more of a test of the C++ implementation than of the concept checking lib jeremysiek: so often failures are expected boostdave: Unless you got a bug in your archetype. jeremysiek: true jeremysiek: or a bug in the test itself boostdave: But anyway, you can just mark the explicit failures markup XML jeremysiek: ok boostdave: and then report the bug to GCC ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
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