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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
To: davem@redhat.com, fnasser@redhat.com
Cc: cagney@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xfail Sparc pattern
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204181606.g3IG6U914843@duracef.shout.net> (raw)

Fernando Nasser writes:
> I wonder if we should activate this test and see where it fails and
> start marking as XFAILS (KFAILS actually) and entering a bug report 
> when we see the regressions.

I think so.  The comment indicates that this is due to a problem
inside gdb, not a problem with the environment, so that XFAIL is wrong
in the first place.

This is the old "XFAIL means an external program is not functional"
versus "XFAIL means that gdb is wrong but it's too painful to fix"
argument.

Michael C


             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18  9:06 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
2002-04-18  9:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-18 15:04   ` David S. Miller
2002-04-18 15:29     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-18 15:37       ` David S. Miller
2002-04-18 16:25         ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-17 12:57 David S. Miller
2002-04-18  7:48 ` Fernando Nasser

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