From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
Cc: carlton@kealia.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F69C0C0.8070009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309180201.h8I21hCr013787@duracef.shout.net>
> Okay, I'm willing to make it an XFAIL rather than a KFAIL.
> I remember those threads. The XFAIL feels odd but it does stand
> for "external" and this bug is indeed a textbook external bug.
Consider the standard example:
(gdb) detach PID
On old windows systems it couldn't work. GDB reporting an error was an
XFAIL, GDB dumping core was a fail.
> As far as making it a FAIL goes, I think David's argument comes down to:
> people pay attention to FAIL, but not to XFAIL or KFAIL. I really don't
> like that situation. I see the question as: whether to fight the
> situation and use more accurate XFAIL/KFAIL rather than generic FAIL, or
> to acquiesce to situation and give people what they expect to see.
> I favor the former.
David is correct. Look at the number of additions to gdb.asm since it
was changed to FAIL instead of ERROR.
However, we've adopted KFAIL XFAIL.
I also intend again proposing that existing XFAILS get yanked.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 2:01 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 14:27 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-09-18 16:05 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 15:38 ` David Carlton
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2003-09-20 22:03 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:59 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 21:27 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-20 22:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-21 0:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 21:22 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 15:33 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 0:54 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 0:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-18 1:20 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 1:27 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 0:00 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 0:48 ` David Carlton
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