From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2990 invoked by alias); 10 May 2002 19:13:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2889 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 19:13:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 May 2002 19:13:45 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4AJDia18551; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:13:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:13:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200205101913.g4AJDia18551@duracef.shout.net> To: jimb@redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: don't xfail ptype test Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00357.txt.bz2 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