[PING][PATCH] stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow: Bump timeout up yet more
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 30 09:19:00 GMT 2014
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> In our routine testing I observed that stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow is very
> slow, especially on targets using soft-float or QEMU (where soft-float is
> used internally), enough to time out even on slow boards we have that have
> TIMEOUTFACTOR already bumped from the default of 1 up to 75.
>
> No other test case requires such a long timeout -- all the other
> succeeding cases fit within their timeouts scaled by TIMEOUTFACTOR on
> these boards. As such I think it's counter-productive to require
> TIMEOUTFACTOR to be set as high as 450 globally for this lone outlier as
> the value affects overall testing duration where there are test cases that
> genuinely time out due to a defect. Therefore I propose the following
> change that makes stdlib/tst-strtod-overflow pass on these slow boards
> with TIMEOUTFACTOR of 75.
Ping!
Maciej
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