Re: [GNU Bison 1.50a] testsuite.log: 2 failures

[Paul Eggert]

I'm responding to your message archived in:
<http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-bison/2002-November/001935.html>:

> From: Arnold Troeger <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:11:15 +0700
> 
> calc.at:462: wc -l <stderr | sed 's/[^0-9]//g'
> --- - Fri Nov 29 04:04:46 2002
> +++ /u76/gnu/src/bison-1.75/IRIX6_mips/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stdout  Fri Nov 
> 29 04:04:46 2002
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -486
> +369

That output is strange, since your bug report contains a copy of
stderr, and that copy does have 486 lines in it; and yet apparently
your "wc" program reported only 369 lines.

So, I suspect that your "wc -l" program is broken.  Can you please
test my theory by running the following shell commands?

  cd tests
  ./testsuite -v 59 60

  for file in testsuite.dir/*/stderr
  do
    echo $file
    wc -l <$file
    grep -c '^' <$file
  done

I'm using "grep -c" to double-check the line counts produced by "wc".
If you can think of another reliable way to count the number of lines
in each stderr file, please do that too.