Issue 556

Trying to make this test a little bit less fragile

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/testing/cffi1/test_ffi_obj.py b/testing/cffi1/test_ffi_obj.py
index 9085fb8..9b1532b 100644
--- a/testing/cffi1/test_ffi_obj.py
+++ b/testing/cffi1/test_ffi_obj.py
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ def test_ffi_new_allocator_1():
     ffi = _cffi1_backend.FFI()
     alloc1 = ffi.new_allocator()
     alloc2 = ffi.new_allocator(should_clear_after_alloc=False)
-    for retry in range(100):
+    for retry in range(400):
         p1 = alloc1("int[10]")
-        p2 = alloc2("int[10]")
+        p2 = alloc2("int[]", 10 + retry * 13)
         combination = 0
         for i in range(10):
             assert p1[i] == 0
@@ -353,8 +353,6 @@ def test_ffi_new_allocator_1():
             p2[i] = -43
         if combination != 0:
             break
-        del p1, p2
-        import gc; gc.collect()
     else:
         raise AssertionError("cannot seem to get an int[10] not "
                              "completely cleared")