6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

[Simon Marlow]

Gregory Wright wrote:

> Here's what happened (this is after I applied David Kirkman's SMP.h  
> patch to my tree).
> When I said 132 failures I was speaking from memory.  The actual  number 
> was 136,
> as noted in the log:
> 
> 
> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Aug 14 11:20:03 EDT 2006
>     1412 total tests, which gave rise to
>     4711 test cases, of which
>        0 caused framework failures
>      658 were skipped
> 
>     3882 expected passes
>       32 expected failures
>        3 unexpected passes
>      136 unexpected failures
> 
> Unexpected passes:
>    barton-mangler-bug(optasm)
>    cholewo-eval(optasm)
>    ds052(normal)
> 
> Unexpected failures:
>    TH_spliceE5_prof(normal)
>    arr004(normal,opt,optasm)
>    arr007(opt,optasm)
>    barton-mangler-bug(opt,threaded2)
>    cabal01(normal)
>    cabal02(normal)
>    cg016(normal,opt,optasm)
>    cg051(opt,optasm)
>    conc012(normal)
>    conc014(opt,optasm)
>    conc021(opt,optasm)
etc.

Interesting - a lot of failures from tests that ran (rather than just compiled), 
and mostly just when compiled optimised.  Thankfully this doesn't appear to be 
threading-related, as these tests are all running with the single-threaded RTS.

Cheers,
	Simon