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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CABD621.9080506@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020402194252.A20826@nevyn.them.org>

> These tests are testing for a feature that exists either nowhere or just in
> simulators and some remote stubs: that the inferior's output goes through
> GDB and is properly encoded by the MI layer.  Since support isn't there for
> many remote debugging stubs or for native, I think these two tests should be
> XFAIL'd.  Does that make sense, Andrew?  If so, OK to commit this?

I believe GDB's rule for XFAIL is something that can't work (due to an 
external constraint) rather than doesn't work (due to a lack of code).

Hence it was marked as a known bug rather than a limitation.

Andrew



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-04  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-02 16:42 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-02 16:52 ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-02 17:01   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-02 17:22     ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-02 17:39       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-03  6:14         ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-04  7:15           ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-04  8:36             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-04 11:09             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-03 20:27 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-04-03 21:13   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-04 13:49     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-04 13:53       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-06 15:04         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-04 16:55       ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-05  6:49         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-05  7:22           ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-05  7:23 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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