From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5191 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2002 04:27:19 -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 5184 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2002 04:27:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 2002 04:27:18 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8643A3E5D; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:27:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3CABD621.9080506@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:27:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp References: <20020402194252.A20826@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 > 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