[commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS

Ulrich Weigand weigand@i1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Mon Mar 22 19:08:00 GMT 2004


Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Hmm, you tripped over a landmine :-(.  In the past many of GDB's 
> testcases were incorrectly XFAILed (as a way of hiding design flaws that 
> were thought to be unfixable / or the individual had no intention of 
> fixing ...).   XFAIL only applies to problems eXternal to GDB (OS bugs, 
> ...) which these are not.

I hadn't been aware of this interpretation of XFAIL in gdb; my understanding
(and current use in gcc) is that XFAIL means eXpected failure ...

>I've removed the offending XFAIL junk.

Thanks!

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  weigand@informatik.uni-erlangen.de



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