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

Michael Snyder
2002-10-24T21:18:26Z

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 don't know if MI is the best choice to start with.
Who's going to fix them up? Certainly not me.

Why not pick one or two mainstream tests, from gdb.base, that have a lot
of xfails in them. Let us get a feel for the pain threshold. Changes
to gdb.mi don't tell me a thing, because I generally ignore it.