Re: [Boost-testing] Questions about "stale" (or not) tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Questions about "stale" (or not) tests
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-18 00:58:40

AMDG

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Steven Watanabe wrote:
>   
>> AMDG
>>
>> Robert Ramey wrote:
>>     
>>> Recently I made some changes in the trunk which provoked failure
>>> accross all platforms.  Since I made more changes to correct the
>>> mistake, about half the platforms now pass the in failing test.  I'm
>>> suspecting that the failing tests are some sort of artifact from the
>>> test system.  The reason I suspect this is at some platforms pass
>>> and others fail - even with the same compiler/library configuration.
>>> How can this be?
>>>       
>> Which test is this?
>>     
>
> test_bitset
>   

My best guess is that the overload of serialize is failing to match
on some compilers when size_t != unsigned.  The declaration of bitset is

template <size_t N> class bitset;

according to the standard.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe