Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>] RFA: Check that `Local' is not in scope when it shouldn't be

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On 04 Feb 2003 16:53:48 -0500, Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> said:
> David Carlton originally asked:

>> I'm confused: don't you want to do the first 'ptype Local' _before_
>> going up from foobar?  In which case your added test might as well
>> happen after you go up from foobar but before running to marker2.

> The test doesn't go up from foobar; it goes up from marker1, which is
> called from foobar, so the "up" makes foobar the current scope.

Oh, duh, sorry about that.

> Michael Chastain corrected the way I'd written the second kfail
> patch.  I believe I've done it right this time --- so that if the
> output changes from the current known incorrect output to anything
> other than the correct output, the known failure will become a
> straight failure.

Right.

> I couldn't figure out, though, why folks were advising me to use
> setup_kfail with a pattern that always matches, instead of simply
> calling kfail directly.  So I just used kfail.

Yes, kfail is better.

Approved; thanks for taking care of this.  My list of
non-{PASS,KFAIL}s in gdb.c++ is dwindling nicely.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu