Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-23 Thread Roberto Bagnara
My brother Abramo discovered that this behaviour is due to a misfeature of GNU Make, whose main procedure contains: #ifdef SET_STACK_SIZE /* Get rid of any avoidable limit on stack size. */ { struct rlimit rlim; /* Set the stack limit huge so that alloca does not fail. */ if

Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-22 Thread Roberto Bagnara
On 08/22/10 06:11, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: I am using Automake's simple test driver. Are you using parallel-tests or not? I am not using it now (though I am planning to use it in the future). Any setting for the variables

Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:36:34AM CEST: On 08/22/10 06:11, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation, keep allocating stack space until they segfault: $

Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-22 Thread Roberto Bagnara
On 08/22/10 12:09, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:36:34AM CEST: On 08/22/10 06:11, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation, keep

On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Roberto Bagnara
I am using Automake's simple test driver. I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation, keep allocating stack space until they segfault: $ ulimit -s 8192 $ ./bug23 Segmentation fault $ ./bug24 Segmentation fault $ ./bug31 Segmentation fault However: $ make check ...

Re: On Ubuntu 10.4, test programs that segfault do XPASS

2010-08-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:32:45PM CEST: I am using Automake's simple test driver. Are you using parallel-tests or not? Any setting for the variables TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, LOG_COMPILER? I have three programs that, due to a buggy program transformation,