Re: [Boost-testing] SpeedSnail / Failing regex test

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-29 12:55:49

Nicola Musatti wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Hi John and Roland,,
>> 
>> w.r.t. http://tinyurl.com/2r8yco, what do we know exactly?
>> 
>> Are we sure test wasn't killed by the regression system's timeout
>> mechanism.  Given the -l3600 argument, the test would have to have
>> run for over an hour, right?  Does it do anything like that?
> 
> FWIW, regex_regress_threaded has been failing intermittently on my PC
> for ages. This is on Windows with different compilers.

Oh, blast :-(  What are the symptoms?

Thanks, John.