Re: [Boost-testing] BGDX failures on gcc-4_0-darwin

From: D. Kevin McGrath (dmcgrath_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-03 14:58:51

I'm running on a powerbook, and so I'm not using threads (at least as  
far as I know...I didn't specifically turn them on, so I don't  
believe they are in use).  I have no idea why the config output is  
not there.

Kevin
On 03 Sep 2005, at 14:48, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:

> Beman Dawes <bdawes <at> acm.org> writes:
>
>>
>> Even though the same gcc build is now being used for BGDX and  
>> dmcgrath, some
>> results still differ. Multi-index tests, for example. I don't have  
>> a clue as
>> to why the results differ.
>>
>> The multi-index tests hung. I had to manually kill the process  
>> each time.
>>
>>
>
> Hello Beman,
>
> A few days ago I checked in some synchronization code in multi_index
> (with lightweight_mutexes) to eliminate potential problems
> when in multithreading mode. Maybe this can be the culprit?
> The synchronization code is extremely simple (http://tinyurl.com/ 
> 9jzby),
> and moreover the tests do not launch any thread, but who knows.
>
> 1. BGDX is running in multithreading mode (BOOST_HAS_THREADS
> defined.) Could you try switching to singlethreaded and see
> if the tests no longer hang?
>
> 2. I cannot know whether dmcgrath is running in multi- or
> singlethreaded mode (config_info test seems to fails,
> see http://tinyurl.com/aduy4.) It'd be useful to have this
> info: if dmcgrath environment does not define BOOST_HAS_THREADS,
> then we have an actual difference between both platforms.
>
> HTH a little,
>
> Joaquín M López Muñoz
> Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
>
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