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From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CADC086.E03E8B47@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CADB974.8090605@cygnus.com>

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> >
> > I see. It is not UNSUPPORTED because the environment have it, just some
> > gsb stubs (and native) do not handle it (i.e., our fault).
> >
> > Well, as we don't have UNIMPLEMENTED, we are left with only 2 options:
> >
> > I guess we would use XFAIL if we decide that this is a feature that
> > we should have and not having it is a failure that should be fixed.
> 
> > Otherwise we can just skip the test where it can't run.
> 
> I don't think this one is an option.  The gdb.asm test was being skipped
> and as a consequence everyone ignored it.  Now that it fails, people are
> fixing it.
> 
> Given it is a GDB ``bug'', is the correct approach:
> 
>         set prms_id <i-can't-find-it>
>         FAIL ...
> 

Lets do what Daniel suggested then, and XFAIL it.  We will soon be able
to make it into a KFAIL.  It would e important to have a bug database
entry for this though (do we have one already?).

-- 
Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@redhat.com
2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-05 15:22 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
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 [this message]
2002-04-05  7:23 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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