From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31191 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2004 16:38:24 -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 31171 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2004 16:38:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO external2.doc.com) (199.72.38.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2004 16:38:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 836 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2004 16:38:21 -0000 Received: from cpe-24-221-209-215.co.sprintbbd.net (HELO doc.com) (24.221.209.215) by external2.doc.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2004 16:38:21 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:38:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [rfa/symtab] Move find_pc_section call to lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Cc: ezannoni@redhat.com, cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) From: Adam Fedor In-Reply-To: <20040209215812.6112F4B363@berman.michael-chastain.com> Message-Id: <8879D8D9-5BE7-11D8-A439-000A277AC1A4@doc.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00236.txt.bz2 On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 02:58 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > For the kfail's, please use more specific patterns than just > ".*$gdb_prompt $". kfail's should be for known bugs, which means > there should be known-bad output. If the output doesn't match a > specific known-bad output, then it means that gdb has regressed > even more, and the KFAIL turns into a FAIL (this does happen). > > The failure results in the test stopping somewhere in an internal function. I think this changed in the different times it was broken, and it might also change in between releases of the OS. So the actual output might not be that useful for a KFAIL.