[Insight-developers] ITK test failures in Debug only

[kent williams]

There's also 

5) Random failures on multiprocessor boxes.  I haven't checked lately but we
used to see this all the time on our quad-core Macs.  I had hoped that the
fix made to the locking/threadsafe code.  I noticed that a lot of the
'not-green' machines on the dashboard are Macs.


On 9/13/07 6:32 AM, "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Mathieu,
> 
>     Is the Debug build a "clean" build ?
> 
>     I mean: Is it starting from scratch every time ?
> 
> 
> The messages I see in the failing tests are mostly of the
> two following types:
> 
> 
>     a) *** Exception executing: Segmentation fault
> 
>     b) *** Exception executing: Illegal instruction
> 
> 
> 
> The typical suspects therefore are:
> 
>    1) You may have CVS updated some headers but
>       not recompiled the corresponding libraries
> 
>    2) Uninitialized variables (in particular pointers)
> 
>    3) Byte swapping misinterpretation errors
> 
>    4) Outdated shared libraries getting in the way.
>       (do you have ITK shared libraries in your path ?)
> 
>