From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21787 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2007 20:44:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 21778 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jan 2007 20:44:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:44:10 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (unknown [123.255.62.204]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F403D8531; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:44:07 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 784494F6C7; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:44:07 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI failures related to string printing In-Reply-To: <200701160941.59975.ghost@cs.msu.su> References: <200701121351.29310.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <17836.26533.146945.793792@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200701160941.59975.ghost@cs.msu.su> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.92.9 Message-Id: <20070116204407.784494F6C7@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:44:00 -0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00362.txt.bz2 > > If your just talking about the one FAIL in mi-var-child.exp, why not just > > mark it as an XFAIL? I see that the other XFAIL actually passes (for me, > > at least). I mean when "FIXME" is removed from the output string. > Why should it be an XFAIL? The test was working fine before your change, > and I see no reason why the test cannot be modified to always pass. The aim of the testsuite is to test GDB and not just get 100% pass rate (except when we're on performance related pay!). The test presumably has value on systems where it passes. I'm sure it can be modified to always pass but that's only worthwhile if it remains a meaningful test. I don't know how to devise such a test because it doesn't fail for me now. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob