From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yf2znh2dgxo.fsf@hawaii.kealia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yf24qzaevtf.fsf@hawaii.kealia.com> (David Carlton's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:44 -0700")
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:44 -0700, David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com> said:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:56:12 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
>>> My view is that "KFAIL" means "Known FAIL", which basically means
>>> there is a PR for it (the PR is the locus of knowledge).
>> I don't think that was the consensus. KFAILs are known failures of
>> the tool under test, i.e. bugs in it. This is a problem in GDB's
>> input. That makes it an xfail.
> That's my understanding as well.
Here's another datum: see the thread "[patch/rfc] Remove all
setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/" in gdb-patches, and in
particular message
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-01/msg00612.html> where
Daniel and Fernando both argue that XFAIL should be used for external
bugs (even if they have GDB PR's) and where you, perhaps reluctantly,
acquiesce.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 0:54 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 0:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-18 1:20 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 1:27 ` David Carlton [this message]
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2003-09-20 22:03 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:59 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 21:27 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-20 22:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-21 0:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 21:22 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 15:33 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-20 21:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 2:01 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 14:27 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 16:05 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 15:38 ` David Carlton
2003-09-18 0:00 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-18 0:48 ` David Carlton
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