[patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Oct 24 15:36:00 GMT 2002


> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:57:10 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
> 
> 
>> I think Elena mentioned KFAIL.
> 
> 
> Yeah, she did, I just glossed over that the first time I read her
> message.
> 
> 
>> Any way, that is want you want to use - you'll need to bug report
>> any failures though.
> 
> 
> Will do.
> 
> 
>> A fairly good definition is:
> 
> 
>> KFAIL == bug, in GDB, something to fix.
>> XFAIL == bug, not in GDB (kernel, debug info, linker, ...), something
>> to ignore.
> 
> 
> Ah, I see, thanks.  And then FAIL == regression in GDB?  Then
> doubtless XFAIL is being overused, so they should be changed to KFAIL
> or FAIL.

Right.  They should be changed back to FAILs (I don't see anyone 
complaining about how the removal of XFAILs also the passes to increase :-).

Then people can start auding all the FAILs (not just the XFAILs) and 
mark up any bugs that are not going to be immediatly fixed.

Andrew




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