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

Andrew Cagney
2002-10-24T19:29:58Z

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:41:05PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> GDB's testsuite is known to be full of xfails that are really kfails or
>> testsuite bugs. Rather than try to audit each xfail in turn, the
>> proposal as been to rip out all the xfails (creating a clean slate) and
>> start marking up the tests from scratch - two steps forward but first
>> one step back.
>>
>> I figure I might as well try to get the ball rolling on this and find
>> out just how much real resistance there is going to be to a change like
>> this. To that end, this removes all xfail's from the gdb.mi testsuite.
>> Similar tests, for the other directories, would follow.
>
>
> I'm known to be a testsuite nazi - I really, really dislike the current
> failure levels, and people aren't doing much about it. I'm all in
> favor of getting the ball rolling. But are you planning to do the
> marking promptly, or just make us stare at even more MI failures for a
> while? I've been staring at the mi-console one for a year...

I believe that you're free to start kfailing things :-)

As for me doing the kfail's, the chances of me getting back to that
short term are, lets say, pretty remote. I'm just trying to get the
process started - eliminate the task that's going to cop the most flack :-)

> I know it's not practical to do them completely without getting the
> testsuite run on a lot of systems, by a lot of people. But you can do
> a fair first-order approximation without that.

Andrew