Re: [boost] [serialization] Test runners being stopped

Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] Test runners being stopped
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-16 12:25:55

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 10/15/15 6:54 PM, Tom Kent wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I have been making changes in he serialization library recently - fixing
> bugs.  This turns out to be more difficult than first meets the eye.  So
> I'm a little bogged down on this.  I did push some changes to develop,
> things looked OK so I merged to master.  I don't know if this is related to
> the current issue.
>
> As soon as I get my current issues resolved, I'll re-pull from master and
> quadiple check that things work in my environments. Unfortunately(?) that
> doesn't include windows.
>

Would it be possible to revert the changes to develop until you have a
better handle on them, so that the runners can continue for all the other
projects?

This would also rule-out the problem actually being a change in some other
library, that is just showing up here.

Tom