to XFAIL or not to XFAIL

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Mon Oct 9 12:37:00 GMT 2000


   From: cgd@sibyte.com (Chris G. Demetriou)
   Date: 09 Oct 2000 12:20:07 -0700

   hmm.  OK, so, based on this, i'd expect that after some amount of
   time, tests that show bugs would be marked XFAIL?  8-)

Theoretically, yes.  Or, of course, the bugs should be fixed.

I would suggest that a test should only be marked XFAIL when there is
some understanding of why the bug will not be fixed.

   On a related note, do you have any comments about which targets one
   should try (and expect to work 8-) when submitting MIPS patches for
   inclusion into the source tree?  (as noted, mips-elf works with a
   small number of FAILs or XFAILS, mipsel-elf falls over significantly
   more often, due to lack of endianness checking/setting in the
   tests... I've not tried other MIPS targets yet.)

No, I don't.  The last time I looked at mips-elf, I think it was sort
of OK, but that was a long time ago.  Don't forget mips64-elf.

Ian


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