Re: newly crashing test

On Saturday-201610-22 15:51, Dan Collins wrote:
> Jarkko - I can't be sure from the line you posted. Does t/uni/overload.t
> segfault (and therefore `make test` fails), or does the child process
> created by that test segfault (it's supposed to, that's the bug).

The latter.  "make test" passes.

So I guess it's not deadly, just ugly as sin.

Maybe the crashing could be captured somehow better?

> If it's the former, we can skip that test on everything but linux, where
> it works as intended, or if necessary, we can skit it entirely.
>
> --
> Dan
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi
> <mailto:jhi@iki.fi>> wrote:
>
>     The new test added in
>
>     http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/111da7867221d4c747d002c775d64f4cc5c00f80
>     <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/111da7867221d4c747d002c775d64f4cc5c00f80>
>
>     seems to consistently crash in my OS X boxes:
>
>     sh: line 1: 81278 Segmentation fault: 11  /Users/jhi/perl5/perl/perl
>     "-I../lib" "tmp81276A" 2>&1
>
>     Looks like it has already been found to be problematic in FreeBSD:
>
>     http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e7619ccdfa0f8562897ad922b44837e5f65194e9
>     <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e7619ccdfa0f8562897ad922b44837e5f65194e9>
>
>     Maybe the problem should be fixed before adding the test?
>
>     (Adding per-platform exceptions may not be a maintainable solution.)
>
>     While in general TODO tests are a good idea, if the test is flakey
>     and/or potentially resource-grabbing, up to the point of
>     machine-killing, maybe less brilliant of an idea.

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