Re: [PATCH] Fix xfail Sparc pattern

Andrew Cagney
2002-04-18T16:21:02Z

> Fernando Nasser writes:
>
>> I wonder if we should activate this test and see where it fails and
>> start marking as XFAILS (KFAILS actually) and entering a bug report
>> when we see the regressions.
>
>
> I think so. The comment indicates that this is due to a problem
> inside gdb, not a problem with the environment, so that XFAIL is wrong
> in the first place.
>
> This is the old "XFAIL means an external program is not functional"
> versus "XFAIL means that gdb is wrong but it's too painful to fix"
> argument.

Sounds right to me. The ``correct fix'' is convert the code to generic
dummy frames (which in turn means work on generic dummy frames) but both
of those are GDB bugs.

Andrew