Update the 5.005threads failure status.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:46:45 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17510

pod/perldelta.pod

index 88db418..3852788 100644 (file)
@@ -3269,20 +3269,25 @@ The following tests are known to fail due to fundamental problems in
 the 5.005 threading implementation. These are not new failures--Perl
 5.005_0x has the same bugs, but didn't have these tests.
 
- ../ext/B/t/xref.t                  255 65280    14   12  85.71%  3-14
- ../ext/List/Util/t/first.t         255 65280     7    4  57.14%  2 5-7
- ../lib/English.t                     2   512    54    2   3.70%  2-3
- ../lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.t            1   256    17    1   5.88%  14
- ../lib/FileCache.t                               5    1  20.00%  5
- ../lib/Filter/Simple/t/data.t                    6    3  50.00%  1-3
- ../lib/Filter/Simple/t/filter_onl                9    3  33.33%  1-2 5
- ../lib/Tie/File/t/31_autodefer.t   255 65280    65   32  49.23%  34-65
- ../lib/autouse.t                                10    1  10.00%  4
- op/flip.t                                       15    1   6.67%  15
+ ../ext/B/t/xref.t                    255 65280    14   12  85.71%  3-14
+ ../ext/List/Util/t/first.t           255 65280     7    4  57.14%  2 5-7
+ ../lib/English.t                       2   512    54    2   3.70%  2-3
+ ../lib/FileCache.t                                 5    1  20.00%  5
+ ../lib/Filter/Simple/t/data.t                      6    3  50.00%  1-3
+ ../lib/Filter/Simple/t/filter_only.                9    3  33.33%  1-2 5
+ ../lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf.t                 1627    4   0.25%  8 11 1626-1627
+ ../lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.t                 1629    4   0.25%  10 13 1628-
+                                                                    1629
+ ../lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbf.t                  1633    4   0.24%  8 11 1632-1633
+ ../lib/Math/BigInt/t/with_sub.t                 1628    4   0.25%  9 12 1627-1628
+ ../lib/Tie/File/t/31_autodefer.t     255 65280    65   32  49.23%  34-65
+ ../lib/autouse.t                                  10    1  10.00%  4
+ op/flip.t                                         15    1   6.67%  15
 
 These failures are unlikely to get fixed as 5.005-style threads
 are considered fundamentally broken.  (Basically what happens is that
-competing threads can corrupt shared global state.)
+competing threads can corrupt shared global state, one good example
+being regular expression engine's state.)
 
 =head2 Timing problems