Re: [patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/

David Carlton
2002-10-24T22:26:40Z

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:57:10 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:

> I think Elena mentioned KFAIL.

Yeah, she did, I just glossed over that the first time I read her
message.

> Any way, that is want you want to use - you'll need to bug report
> any failures though.

Will do.

> A fairly good definition is:

> KFAIL == bug, in GDB, something to fix.
> XFAIL == bug, not in GDB (kernel, debug info, linker, ...), something
> to ignore.

Ah, I see, thanks. And then FAIL == regression in GDB? Then
doubtless XFAIL is being overused, so they should be changed to KFAIL
or FAIL.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu