From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tg@gmplib.org (=?UTF-8?Q?Torbj=C3=B6rn?= Granlund) Subject: bug#21620: tests/mpz/reuse intermittently fails on armhf-linux-gnu Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:48:58 +0200 Message-ID: <868u7gb1s5.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> References: <87mvvxuxoo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjUvK-0006cr-SL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:17:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjUvH-0006MK-5p for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:17:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjUvH-0006MG-2g for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:17:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjUvG-0001tA-Ik for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:17:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Resent-To: 21620@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-Message-ID: <87twq4m0p8.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <87mvvxuxoo.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon\, 05 Oct 2015 17\:44\:55 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: gmp-bugs@gmplib.org 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. --=20 Torbj=C3=B6rn Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622