From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17257 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2003 01:27:32 -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 17249 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2003 01:27:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2003 01:27:32 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id B298FCB2E; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:27:31 -0700 (PDT) To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp References: <200309180053.h8I0rvWc012998@duracef.shout.net> <20030918005612.GA2546@nevyn.them.org> From: David Carlton Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:27:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (David Carlton's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:44 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00390.txt.bz2 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:20:44 -0700, David Carlton said: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:56:12 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz 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 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