From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: XFAIL vs. KFAIL
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080405164927.GB16109@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804051952.05563.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> can somebody explain the difference between XFAILing and KFAILing a
> test in the GDB testsuite? I've looked at DejaGNU manual, I haven't
> found the answer.
KFAIL is when we know of a failure caused by a bug in GDB.
XFAIL is when a problem outside of GDB's control is causing the test
to fail. For instance, a kernel issue, or some wrong debugging info
generated by the compiler, etc.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 16:45 Vladimir Prus
2008-04-05 17:13 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-04-05 18:52 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-06 0:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-07 19:13 ` Michael Snyder
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