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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
To: jimb@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: don't xfail ptype test
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205101913.g4AJDia18551@duracef.shout.net> (raw)

Whoops, you've got the setup_kfail one line early in the tests.
Other than that, this patch is approved.

setup_kfail is our new facility for indicating that a test will
fail due to a known bug in gdb (k == "k"nown).  This way, we can
distinguish between known bugs and new, unknown bugs (which are
presumably regressions).

It's not perfect because the more setup_kfail's exist in the test corpus,
the more likely that a regression will manifest as a KFAIL.  But it's
a lot better than those hundreds of setup_xfail's that are not really
external bugs.

FernandoN has written a DejaGnu patch with doco.  Here's a pointer:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-04/msg00201.html

We're waiting on Rob Savoye right now to release a new DejaGnu
with this patch.  Also I don't know if Fernando's patch is in
sourceware dejagnu or not.  I'm using DejaGnu 1.42 + this patch,
so I am ready for kfail's whenever we start going live with them.

Michael C


             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-10 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-10 12:13 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
2002-05-10 13:25 ` Jim Blandy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-10 18:47 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-10  9:55 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-10 11:33 ` Jim Blandy
2002-05-10  9:17 Jim Blandy

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