Re: [buildfarm related] Machines gcc experimental failed test_lfind - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: [buildfarm related] Machines gcc experimental failed test_lfind
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In response to Re: [buildfarm related] Machines gcc experimental failed test_lfind  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:51:12AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> If a problem is being observed only on animals with experimental
> compilers, it's almost surely a compiler bug and not something
> we should spend time on.  In this case, the failure is in test
> code that hasn't changed in several years, making it even less
> likely that we broke it.

It looks like the failures are limited to AArch64, and commit f8f4afe did
change the code in question a bit.  However, there are failures on older
PG versions where that commit was not applied, so the evidence does seem to
point to a compiler bug.

-- 
nathan



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