Re: Failing test case 67 Fatal errors but M4 continues producing output

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Petr Machata wrote:

> The instructions that you gave indeed do reproduce the problem.

Thanks for confirming.

> P.S. I seriously wonder whether it's worth it to hunt this esoteric bug.
>  (Especially given that it was confirmed that the code is written
> correctly.)  As I said, it's essentially impossible to reproduce outside
> that very specific setup, meaning user impact low, and it's not like
> this is a major breaker.

OK, that makes sense to me.  Maybe this data point will prove useful in 
debugging a future bug report to Gnulib or Bison.

> Well, doing "while ./testsuite 67; do :; done" was part of my attempts
> to reproduce the problem.  Depends what your "many times in a row"
> means, I kept this running for, say, 50 iterations.

It's hard to be sure, but I would guess that's enough.