Re: [commit/java] Work around java/1565 in jmisc.exp

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:47:13PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:12:11 -0500, Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> said:
> >
> >
> >>>This patch modifies jmisc.exp to work around the very very long
> >>>standing bug java/1565 (just that no one thought to report it?).
> >
> >
> >It's bug java/1164 (with a corresponding GDB PR).  As Michael pointed
> >out, one of the other Java tests already does what you want.  It would
> >be good for this test to be KFAILed, though, given that you're the
> >second person to have proposed that change in the last two or three
> >months.
> 
> No, "jmain.exp" does what I want - test for three potential bugs.  The 
> old "jmisc.exp" really isn't doing anything other than causing cascading 
> failures :-(
> 
> BTW, I looked at KFAILing "jmisc.exp" but dropped the idea like a hot 
> potato - the FAIL is burried deep in the depths of "runto" :-(

All you'd need then would be a setup_kfail, no?  Sure, you don't get to
match the explicit failing pattern that way...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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