Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp

David Carlton
2003-09-18T01:27:32Z

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:44 -0700, David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com> said:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:56:12 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:

>>> My view is that "KFAIL" means "Known FAIL", which basically means
>>> there is a PR for it (the PR is the locus of knowledge).

>> I don't think that was the consensus. KFAILs are known failures of
>> the tool under test, i.e. bugs in it. This is a problem in GDB's
>> input. That makes it an xfail.

> That's my understanding as well.

Here's another datum: see the thread "[patch/rfc] Remove all
setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/" in gdb-patches, and in
particular message
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-01/msg00612.html> where
Daniel and Fernando both argue that XFAIL should be used for external
bugs (even if they have GDB PR's) and where you, perhaps reluctantly,
acquiesce.

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com