[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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