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

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-10-24T19:58:50Z

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:29:56PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >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 :-)

In that case, I'd ask you not to commit this. There's no point in
adding to the FAILs if it doesn't gain us anything. Would it be
hard to file PRs for all the failures you see and mark them KFAIL?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer