------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com  2005-05-13 
20:39 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.0 Regression] ext/array_allocator/2.cc
 execution test fails on hppa64-hpux

On Fri, 13 May 2005, pcarlini at suse dot de wrote:

> Given our current basic_string implementation (which I'm maintaining) I can
> tell you that this testcase is very brittle: see 19495, that lead to the
> xfail for powerpc, for additional details. Benjamin's changes cannot have
> directly caused the fail and, IMHO, represent a very welcome clean-up.

So this should be treated as a known latent bug, a testcase which fails or 
passes at random on targets requiring strict alignment?  In which case 
there should be an effective-target keyword for strict alignment and the 
testcase should be xfailed on all such targets?



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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21554

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