Re: [boost] [regression results] bizarre test results: foreach, gcc-4_0-darwin

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-01 09:47:29

Eric Niebler writes:
> Resending....
>
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> I need help understanding some of the recent regression results. At 
>> http://tinyurl.com/72q3k you can see the most recent Foreach test 
>> results. The first and the third columns both purport to be 
>> gcc-4_0-darwin, but the results are different! How can that be?

According to Beman, he was running XCode 2.0 while "dmcgrath" is
running Xcode 2.1
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/1989).

>> 
>> Both tests were run today, and I haven't touched the code since
>> yesterday.
>> 
>
> I notice that one toolset is run incrementally and the other is not. 
> Could that be causing the differences in the results? 

Theoretically.

> How?

Like the tests didn't get recompiled/re-run after you've fixed the
problem.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering