From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11757 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2002 16:16:41 -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 11640 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2002 16:16:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 16:16:35 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (rtl.cygnus.com [205.180.230.21]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA25137; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:16:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C73CBB0.E0244B31@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:16:00 -0000 From: Fernando Nasser Organization: Red Hat Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-21 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa:testsuite} Overhaul sizeof.exp References: <200202200456.g1K4uwX27098@duracef.shout.net> <3C73B949.90209@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00540.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: > > The XFAIL policy is different to GDB. GDB interprets XFAILs to mean not > supported due to something outside of GDB's control. Not this is a bug > but we're not fixing it at present. > Gdb follows the Dejagnu intended meaning for XFAILs. We've noticed that we need something else for "Known bugs" long ago. I suggested that we should create the KFAILs for that, which would be documented with a bug database reference. I still think we should do that. -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9