Fix nightly CI tests (#810)

* Update test for julia >= v1.6 to reflect change in show(typealias)
* Band-aid to fix nightly tests by marking failing allocation test as test_broken
* Updated for julia#36962 and julia#37302
* Add version range so we revisit ambiguities in 1.6.0-rc

Co-authored-by: Chris Foster <chris42f@gmail.com>

Author: Liozou

test/ambiguities.jl

@@ -10,4 +10,11 @@ const allowable_ambiguities =
         0
     end
 
-@test length(detect_ambiguities(Base, LinearAlgebra, StaticArrays)) <= allowable_ambiguities
+if v"1.6.0-DEV.816" <= VERSION < v"1.6.0-rc"
+    # Revisit in 1.6.0-rc1 or before. See
+    #   https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/36962
+    #   https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36951
+    @test_broken length(detect_ambiguities(#=LinearAlgebra, =#StaticArrays)) <= allowable_ambiguities
+else
+    @test length(detect_ambiguities(Base, LinearAlgebra, StaticArrays)) <= allowable_ambiguities
+end

test/core.jl

@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@
     @testset "Type parameter errors" begin
         # (not sure what type of exception these should be?)
         @test_throws Exception SVector{1.0,Int}((1,))
-        @test_throws DimensionMismatch("No precise constructor for SArray{Tuple{2},$Int,1,2} found. Length of input was 1.") SVector{2,Int}((1,))
+        @static if VERSION < v"1.6-"
+            @test_throws DimensionMismatch("No precise constructor for SArray{Tuple{2},$Int,1,2} found. Length of input was 1.") SVector{2,Int}((1,))
+        else
+            @test_throws DimensionMismatch("No precise constructor for SVector{2, $Int} found. Length of input was 1.") SVector{2,Int}((1,))
+        end
         @test_throws Exception SVector{1,3}((1,))
 
         @test_throws Exception SMatrix{1.0,1,Int,1}((1,))

test/matrix_multiply_add.jl

@@ -77,7 +77,16 @@ function test_multiply_add(N1,N2,ArrayType=MArray)
     mul!(b,At,c,1.0,2.0)
     @test b ≈ 5A'c
 
-    @test_noalloc mul!(c,A,b)
+    @static if VERSION < v"1.5-"
+        @test_noalloc mul!(c,A,b)
+    else
+        if !(ArrayType <: SizedArray)
+            @test_noalloc mul!(c,A,b)
+        else
+            mul!(c,A,b)
+            @test_broken(@allocated(mul!(c,A,b)) == 0)
+        end
+    end
     bmark = @benchmark mul!($c,$A,$b,$α,$β) samples=10 evals=10
     @test minimum(bmark).allocs == 0
     # @test_noalloc mul!(c, A, b, α, β)  # records 32 bytes