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Re: PSA: glibc buildbot slave up for aarch64

On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> Right, I should not have said regressions, just bugs for which there is
> a test case in the testsuite and it is currently failing.  Also, this is
> kinda the reason why I am uncomfortable with using the XFAIL mechanism
> indiscriminately - they conflate these kinds of convoluted issues with
> bugs than could have been fixed in a specified time frame but weren't
> because they weren't thought to be important enough at that time.

The GDB testsuite distinguishes XFAIL and KFAIL, but I've never been 
convinced that distinction is useful in practice (and e.g. GCC does not 
use KFAIL).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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