From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24713 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2006 19:25:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 24697 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2006 19:25:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (HELO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com) (202.81.18.152) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:25:03 +0000 Received: from sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (d23rh904.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.202]) by ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k5NJT5AG098686 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:29:05 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.237]) by sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k5NJSKVi244646 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:28:20 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k5NJOwU6003313 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:24:58 +1000 Received: from dyn9047022062.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022062.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.62]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5NJOvhg003298; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:24:57 +1000 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:25:00 -0000 From: Wu Zhou To: Daniel Jacobowitz cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] decimal float point patch based on libdecnumber: testcase In-Reply-To: <20060623184946.GA32680@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: References: <20060622202457.GA22230@nevyn.them.org> <20060623023808.GA1781@nevyn.them.org> <20060623184946.GA32680@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 So what is XFAIL intended for? In my opinion, it is intended for failure, but an expected failure. I guess it can be used for such situation like: the output is expected, but is not what we want at last. We might fix that at a later time. Just my two cents anyway. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks - Wu Zhou On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:39:41AM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote: > > > > Do you mean that we need to output something more close to the fact. to > > > > say, "Addition/Multiple of decimal floating point is not supported right > > > > now". or something other like this. If you want, I can do that. > > > > > > No, I think what's there is fine - but add a test or two for that error > > > message. > > > > OK. Understand. We can use XFAIL for them, right? > > I mean tests that PASS given the current state - for now, it's what we > want to happen, so test that it does happen. > > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz > CodeSourcery >