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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <weigand@i1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405F3CF9.1000308@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403221907.UAA12213@faui1d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Hmm, you tripped over a landmine :-(.  In the past many of GDB's 
>>> testcases were incorrectly XFAILed (as a way of hiding design flaws that 
>>> were thought to be unfixable / or the individual had no intention of 
>>> fixing ...).   XFAIL only applies to problems eXternal to GDB (OS bugs, 
>>> ...) which these are not.
> 
> 
> I hadn't been aware of this interpretation of XFAIL in gdb; my understanding
> (and current use in gcc) is that XFAIL means eXpected failure ...

For GDB, I should more correctly state eXpected FAIL due to eXternal 
problem.  Which is different to a Known FAIL due to GDB bug. :-)

Andrew

>>>I've removed the offending XFAIL junk.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich



  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-17 19:18 [PATCH] Remove XPASS on s390* Ulrich Weigand
2004-03-19  0:09 ` Ulrich Weigand
2004-03-22 14:41 ` [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: " Andrew Cagney
2004-03-22 19:08   ` [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS Ulrich Weigand
2004-03-22 19:22     ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-03-22 19:39       ` [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove Ulrich Weigand

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