From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, fnasser@redhat.com, cagney@cygnus.com,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xfail Sparc pattern
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBEF272.3060500@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204181606.g3IG6U914843@duracef.shout.net>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-18 9:06 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-04-18 9:21 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-04-18 15:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-18 15:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-18 15:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-18 16:25 ` Andrew Cagney
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2002-04-17 12:57 David S. Miller
2002-04-18 7:48 ` Fernando Nasser
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