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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: tolerate unavailable struct return values
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011129173644.A15429@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011129220913.2D72A5E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:09:13PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> On some architectures, it's impossible for GDB to find structs
> returned by value.  These shouldn't be failures.  Should they be
> passes?

Out of curiousity, which architectures?  And to be pedantic, I suspect
that it might be "not always possible" rather than actually impossible.

Nit-picking aside, I agree with Michael.  This is the most appropriate
use for XFAIL, as opposed to some of the other things we use it for :)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: tolerate unavailable struct return values
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011129173644.A15429@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011120071900.sSsh1b5CmzVBJUb-WH7i7TnZY74i-xTVN93MhW6RMZg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011129220913.2D72A5E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:09:13PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> On some architectures, it's impossible for GDB to find structs
> returned by value.  These shouldn't be failures.  Should they be
> passes?

Out of curiousity, which architectures?  And to be pedantic, I suspect
that it might be "not always possible" rather than actually impossible.

Nit-picking aside, I agree with Michael.  This is the most appropriate
use for XFAIL, as opposed to some of the other things we use it for :)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-29 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-19 20:48 Jim Blandy
2001-11-29 14:08 ` Jim Blandy
2001-11-29 14:19 ` Michael Snyder
2001-11-19 22:30   ` Michael Snyder
2001-11-29 14:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2001-11-20  7:19   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-30 12:48   ` Jim Blandy
2001-11-23 13:51     ` Jim Blandy
2001-11-30 13:33     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-24 10:23       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-30 13:51       ` Michael Snyder
2001-11-24 23:01         ` Michael Snyder
2001-12-12 11:27         ` Elena Zannoni
2001-12-17 15:09           ` Jim Blandy
2001-12-18  9:35             ` Elena Zannoni
     [not found] ` <87667t2loj.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
2001-11-29 22:41   ` Jim Blandy
2001-11-21  8:07     ` Jim Blandy
2001-11-29 22:46 Jim Blandy
2001-11-21 13:10 ` Jim Blandy

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