From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1852 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2002 19:09:29 -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 1843 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2002 19:09:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 2002 19:09:28 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D85E3E31; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:09:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3CACA4E9.4030203@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:09:00 -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: Fernando Nasser Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp References: <20020402194252.A20826@nevyn.them.org> <3CAA4F86.7CE409C8@redhat.com> <20020402200140.A21552@nevyn.them.org> <3CAA5699.FF4450A@redhat.com> <20020402203915.A25867@nevyn.them.org> <3CAB0D59.5816B7DB@redhat.com> <3CAC6D69.E2A395F4@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 > I think you all missed this one... > > Fernando Nasser wrote: > >> >> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >> > >> > That's >> > why I'd rather XFAIL than skip the tests. >> > > >> >> 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