[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
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