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Re: RFA: tolerate unavailable struct return values
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:36:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFA: tolerate unavailable struct return values
- References: <20011129220913.2D72A5E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:09:13PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> On some architectures, it's impossible for GDB to find structs
> returned by value. These shouldn't be failures. Should they be
> passes?
Out of curiousity, which architectures? And to be pedantic, I suspect
that it might be "not always possible" rather than actually impossible.
Nit-picking aside, I agree with Michael. This is the most appropriate
use for XFAIL, as opposed to some of the other things we use it for :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer