[Boost-commit] svn:boost r41530 - trunk/status

From: nielsdekker_at_[hidden]
Date: 2007-12-01 08:57:06

Author: niels_dekker
Date: 2007-12-01 08:57:06 EST (Sat, 01 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 41530
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/41530

Log:
Marked value_init_test failures on GCC as "expected failures", referring to ticket #1491
Text files modified: 
   trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml |    20 ++++++++++++++++++++                    
   1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Modified: trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
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--- trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml	2007-12-01 08:57:06 EST (Sat, 01 Dec 2007)
@@ -5434,6 +5434,26 @@
             </note>
         </mark-expected-failures>
         <mark-expected-failures>
+            <test name="value_init_test"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-3.3*"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-3.4*"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-4.1*"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-4.2*"/>
+            <toolset name="gcc-mingw-3.4*"/>
+            <note author="Niels Dekker">
+                This test typically fails on GCC, because of an issue described by
+                <a href="http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1491">
+                ticket #1491, "value_initialized leaves data uninitialized,
+                when using GCC"</a>. The issue is caused by some GCC compiler bugs:  
+                <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30111">
+                Value-initialization of POD base class doesn't initialize members</a>,
+                reported by Jonathan Wakely, and
+                <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33916">
+                Default constructor fails to initialize array members</a>,
+                reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain. 
+            </note>
+        </mark-expected-failures>
+        <mark-expected-failures>
             <test name="operators_test"/>
             <toolset name="gcc-3.4.5_linux_x86_64"/>
             <note author="Vladimir Prus">