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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


  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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