cvs commit: hugs98/tools hugs-hc

[Ross Paterson]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:41:47PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:39:20PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > The timeout patch also makes several tests GHC-only; perhaps it could
> > be wrapped up somehow.  (Not that Hugs doesn't need a timeout sometimes.)
> 
> Do you mean
>     http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/cvs-ghc/2004-October/022166.html
> ?

Sorry, I was talking about watchdog snippets like this in various tests:

  main_t <- myThreadId
  forkIO $ do
        threadDelay 2000000
        throwTo main_t (ErrorCall "killed")

which I confused with the title of your patch, when actually your patch
is exactly the replacement for these that I was asking for.

> And while I'm here, this work is really cool! What would be even better
> from my PoV is if we made sure the testsuite had no unexpected failures
> or passes for the last 2 or 3 releases of the implementations. This
> might need a slightly more flexible extension of the per-implementation
> stuff you've added.

It would be nice, but just getting the latest version to pass is more
than we can manage at present.  (I currently have 124 unexpected failures,
though lots of these are due to not handling the FFI.)