On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Xinchen Hui <larue...@php.net> wrote:

> Hey:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Michael Wallner <m...@php.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On 30 12 2015, at 22:34, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > If any of you have looked at http://gcov.php.net any time in the last
> > three years, you'll probably have noticed an alarming and inexplicably
> high
> > number of test failures. And if you've looked at Travis, you'll have seen
> > much more reasonable numbers (i.e. usually zero).
> >
> > A guess might be, that many of the tests run on gcov are disabled on
> > travis.
> >
> > >
> > > So, I'd like to ask, why does gcov.php.net always show such high
> > numbers, and apparently has things that are fixed show up as broken, and
> > secondly, since we use Travis for continuous integration these days, why
> is
> > the box even still running?
> >
> > gcov is about coverage too, so…
> >
> and also valgrind, which is quite useful, since it takes too long to run in
> laptop.
>
> thanks
>
>
which is also explains some of the differences between the test failures,
running the testsuite with valgrind can find much more memory leaks
compared to the simple run-tests run on travis


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