On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:29:56PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:41:05PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>GDB's testsuite is known to be full of xfails that are really kfails or
>>testsuite bugs. Rather than try to audit each xfail in turn, the
>>proposal as been to rip out all the xfails (creating a clean slate) and
>>start marking up the tests from scratch - two steps forward but first
>>one step back.
>>
>>I figure I might as well try to get the ball rolling on this and find
>>out just how much real resistance there is going to be to a change like
>>this. To that end, this removes all xfail's from the gdb.mi testsuite.
>> Similar tests, for the other directories, would follow.
>
>
>I'm known to be a testsuite nazi - I really, really dislike the current
>failure levels, and people aren't doing much about it. I'm all in
>favor of getting the ball rolling. But are you planning to do the
>marking promptly, or just make us stare at even more MI failures for a
>while? I've been staring at the mi-console one for a year...
I believe that you're free to start kfailing things :-)
As for me doing the kfail's, the chances of me getting back to that
short term are, lets say, pretty remote. I'm just trying to get the
process started - eliminate the task that's going to cop the most flack :-)