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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] decimal float point patch based on libdecnumber: testcase
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623195135.GA2302@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606240320180.2746@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:25:10AM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> So what is XFAIL intended for?  In my opinion, it is intended for failure, 
> but an expected failure.  I guess it can be used for such situation like:
> the output is expected, but is not what we want at last.  We might fix 
> that at a later time.  
> 
> Just my two cents anyway.  Correct me if I am wrong.

*shrug*

It's not a big deal.  I'm happy with them xfailing, but then you have
to have some guess as to what the pass output would be.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-23 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 21:03 Wu Zhou
2006-06-21 23:36 ` [RFC] decimal float point patch based on libdecnumber: gdb patch Wu Zhou
2006-06-22  3:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-22 14:18     ` Wu Zhou
2006-07-12 20:39   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-22 20:25 ` [RFC] decimal float point patch based on libdecnumber: testcase Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-22 23:27   ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-23  2:38     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-23 18:39       ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-23 18:49         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-23 19:25           ` Wu Zhou
2006-06-23 19:51             ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-07-11 15:35 Wu Zhou
2006-07-12 17:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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