bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu

2015-10-07 Thread Torbjörn Granlund
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: OK, I’ll see if I can reproduce it on another ARMv7 machine and report back. Good. Incidentally, we run nightly builds on a bunch of ARMv7 machines. However, the machine in question is a build machine and it would be surprising for the RAM issue

bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu

2015-10-06 Thread Torbjörn Granlund
This is most surely a hardware problem. The most common such problem is a bad RAM chip. Without special undocumented parameters, GMP's test suite runs the same exact test vectors for each invocation, and GMP uses just plain old deterministic algortihms internally. -- Torbjörn Please encrypt, ke