From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15538 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2003 21:40:30 -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 15530 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2003 21:40:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2003 21:40:27 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4622B89; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F6CC94A.5060904@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: carlton@kealia.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp References: <200309181533.h8IFXRC9024464@duracef.shout.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00428.txt.bz2 > ac> David is correct. Look at the number of additions to gdb.asm since it > ac> was changed to FAIL instead of ERROR. > ac> > ac> However, we've adopted KFAIL XFAIL. > > Ummm, I am dense here ... are you favoring FAIL or XFAIL > for this test result? Neither. Just agreeing with what I'm assuming is David's assertion that KFAIL and XFAIL both lead to people sweeping problems under the carpet. For years the gdb.asm directory produced an ERROR. Only after it was changed to produce failures did people start fixing it and the bugs it unearthed. > (The situation is that gcc produces bad debug info which causes > gdb to give bad results. The gcc bug has been fixed but we have > a gdb test for the bug in case it comes back). Judgment call. If its possible for gdb to identify the corrupt input then it needs to alert the user to the problem, and failing to do this is a bug. Andrew