From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8629 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2002 22:26:40 -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 8578 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 22:26:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 22:26:39 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9OMQXP31790; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:26:33 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/ References: <3DB83EC1.6070609@redhat.com> <3DB86CB6.10801@redhat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:26:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3DB86CB6.10801@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00527.txt.bz2 On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:57:10 -0400, Andrew Cagney said: > I think Elena mentioned KFAIL. Yeah, she did, I just glossed over that the first time I read her message. > Any way, that is want you want to use - you'll need to bug report > any failures though. Will do. > A fairly good definition is: > KFAIL == bug, in GDB, something to fix. > XFAIL == bug, not in GDB (kernel, debug info, linker, ...), something > to ignore. Ah, I see, thanks. And then FAIL == regression in GDB? Then doubtless XFAIL is being overused, so they should be changed to KFAIL or FAIL. David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu