From 8e71dbd6c12b0fde77ed58c21e4083c84227114e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Babokin Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:12:12 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Adding comments to fail_db.txt --- fail_db.txt | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fail_db.txt b/fail_db.txt index 59e0a7a6..eb3c0fe9 100644 --- a/fail_db.txt +++ b/fail_db.txt @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ -% List of known fails +% List of known fails. +% The list is unordered and contains information about commonly used platforms / configurations. +% Our goas is to maintain this list for Linux, MacOS and Windows with reasonably new compilers. +% Note, that it's important which C++ compiler was used. For example, gcc 4.4 is know to produce +% considerably more fails with generic targets, than gcc 4.7 or later. +% Using old compilers (gcc 4.4 is considered to be relatively old) may cause LLVM bugs. +% To avoid them you can use LLVM selfbuild. +% ./tests/masked-scatter-vector.ispc runfail x86-64 sse2-i32x4 Linux LLVM 3.3 g++4.4 -O2 * ./tests/atomics-13.ispc compfail x86 sse4-i16x8 Linux LLVM 3.3 g++4.4 -O2 * ./tests/reduce-equal-10.ispc compfail x86 sse4-i16x8 Linux LLVM 3.3 g++4.4 -O2 *