Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp

Andrew Cagney
2002-04-04T19:09:29Z

> I think you all missed this one...
>
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
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>> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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>> >
>> > That's
>> > why I'd rather XFAIL than skip the tests.
>> >
>
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>> It would be "unsupported" (which means that some feature is not
>> supported in this platform and so we can't run the test).

Ah, here it is "unimplemented" :-) The platform does have the
mechanisms needed to implement this, just not the code.

--

Aside, fernando and I had a brief discussion about xfail vs unsupported
and came up with the following concrete example.

Attach/detach:

FreeBSD has a bug in its detach, since at present it doesn't work but
did in the past, and will again in the next release it will work, it
gets marked as ``xfail'. Next release it will mysteriously ``xpass''
and can be adjusted accordingly.

Cygwin, due to limitations in the underlying OS, simply wasn't able to
support detach, it should be marked as ``unsupported''. (As a foot
note, recent versions of the underlying OS, did fix this limitation).

Andrew