selective.exp xfails

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:28:39PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hi HJ,
> 
> I discovered today that the following changes were made to ld's
> selective.exp test case last year:
> 
> 2001-07-12  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* ld-selective/selective.exp: Mark selective1, selective2,
> 	selective4 and selective5 xfail on alpha*-*.
> 
> 2001-06-06  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* ld-selective/selective.exp: Mark selective2, selective3,
> 	selective4 and selective5 xfail on Linux/mips.
> 
> I have a couple of questions about these patches:
> 
>   + Why are all Alpha targets XFAILed?

I don't think alpha supports garbage collection.

> 
>   + If the intention is to XFAIL the tests on Linux/mips, why does the
>     patch XFAIL "mips*-*"?  There are embedded MIPS targets where this
>     test will pass.  Frankly, I wonder how this particular patch was
>     accepted into the tree.
> 
>   + Why does this test fail specifically on {alpha,mips*}-linux-*
>     systems, anyway?  If it fails, it seems to me that it is a genuine
>     failure.

I don't think mips supports garbage collection either.


H.J.