Re: [patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/

Michael Snyder
2002-10-24T23:36:52Z

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > At least this does move things forward - it puts the tesuite in a state
> >> > where everyone and everyone can incrementally do the marking.
> >
> >>
> >> But nobody will...
> >
> >
> > Removing the XFAILS without replacing them with KFAILS is not fixing a bug.
>
> Why?
>
> While not immediatly installing KFAILs does increase the number of
> FAILs, GDB's failure rate has, for the last >2 years been artifically
> deflated to the tune of ~200! All I'm doing is removing that artifical
> adjustment, putting things back to where they should have been >2 years ago.
>
> Those XFAILs should have been pulled years ago but were not. Instead,
> as a political compromise, the move/debate was delayed until after
> Fernando invested their own time in getting KFAIL added. Are we now
> going to delay things by another N years while we all sit around and
> wait for someone to magically volenteer to do, in a single hit, all that
> audit work?

Calm down, your points are not under debate, and no one made the
suggestion you imply. Particularly the "magically" part.