From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30589 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2004 19:08:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30579 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2004 19:07:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) (131.188.31.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2004 19:07:59 -0000 Received: from faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (faui1d [131.188.31.34]) by faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (8.9.3p3/8.1.9-FAU) with ESMTP id UAA12545; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:07:58 +0100 (CET) From: Ulrich Weigand Received: (from weigand@localhost) by faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (8.9.3p3/8.1.6-FAU) id UAA12213; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:07:58 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200403221907.UAA12213@faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Subject: Re: [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS To: cagney@gnu.org (Andrew Cagney) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:08:00 -0000 Cc: weigand@i1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Weigand), gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <405EFAF9.9000906@gnu.org> from "Andrew Cagney" at Mar 22, 2004 09:40:57 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00503.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: > Hmm, you tripped over a landmine :-(. In the past many of GDB's > testcases were incorrectly XFAILed (as a way of hiding design flaws that > were thought to be unfixable / or the individual had no intention of > fixing ...). XFAIL only applies to problems eXternal to GDB (OS bugs, > ...) which these are not. I hadn't been aware of this interpretation of XFAIL in gdb; my understanding (and current use in gcc) is that XFAIL means eXpected failure ... >I've removed the offending XFAIL junk. Thanks! Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand weigand@informatik.uni-erlangen.de