From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1791 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2002 15:22:15 -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 1775 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2002 15:22:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2002 15:22:13 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (rtl.cygnus.com [205.180.230.21]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA27123; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:22:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3CADC086.E03E8B47@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:22:00 -0000 From: Fernando Nasser Organization: Red Hat Canada X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp References: <20020402194252.A20826@nevyn.them.org> <3CABD621.9080506@cygnus.com> <20020404001337.B11510@nevyn.them.org> <3CACCA82.2090005@cygnus.com> <3CACF57B.B55F03E4@redhat.com> <3CADB974.8090605@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 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 > 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