[boost] [serialization] Test runners being stopped

Subject: [boost] [serialization] Test runners being stopped
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-15 21:54:34

I think there is a bug in the serialization library that is breaking out of
the test harness and causing window's error handling to kick in (when
running on Windows, obviously). Usually when this happens the test runner
application eventually (I believe) times out the test and marks it as
failed. However, there are an incredible number of failures happening
(since late last week) and they are bogging down the entire test run. Most
of the runs I have attempted in the last week on windows have failed...the
ones that have succeeded have taken ~12hrs up from the normal 3-4hrs.

I was able to capture a stack trace of one of these random failures:
     msvcp140d.dll!00007ff9cfffb968()    Unknown
     msvcp140d.dll!00007ff9cff73005()    Unknown
>
test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!std::basic_filebuf<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t>
>::_Endwrite() Line 649    C++

test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!std::basic_filebuf<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t>
>::close() Line 341    C++

test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!std::basic_filebuf<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t>
>::~basic_filebuf<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t> >() Line 155    C++

test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!std::basic_ofstream<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t>
>::~basic_ofstream<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t> >() Line 1068    C++

test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!std::basic_ofstream<wchar_t,std::char_traits<wchar_t>
>::`vbase destructor'()    C++
     test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!test_list() Line 65    C++
     test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!test_main(int __formal, char * *
__formal) Line 176    C++
     test_list_ptrs_text_warchive.exe!main(int argc, char * * argv) Line
203    C++
     [External Code]

I'd be happy to help get to the bottom of this, if you can give me any more
diagnostic steps to take. We need to resolve this ASAP because it is
preventing the windows test runners from producing timely results and we
have a release coming up.

Thanks,
Tom