From: Joe Gottman (jgottman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-27 23:43:07
Douglas Gregor wrote:
> Boost Regression test failures
> Report time: 2007-01-27T13:27:45Z
>
> This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms.
>
> Detailed report:
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/issues.html
>
> The following platforms have a large number of failures:
> borland-5.8.2
> msvc-6.5
>
> 1668 failures in 12 libraries (49 are from non-broken platforms)
> algorithm/string (1)
> date_time (0 of 14 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> dynamic_bitset (0 of 1 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> graph (1)
> iostreams (1)
> multi_index (0 of 2 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> regex (36 of 38 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> serialization (0 of 1582 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> test (1 of 19 failures are from non-broken platforms)
> tr1 (4)
> type_traits (2)
> wave (3)
I can't help noticing that 1582 of 1668 regressions are in the
serialization library. That's almost 95% of the regressions. And the
next highest number of regressions is only 38. What is it that makes
the serialization library so fragile?
Joe Gottman