[PATCH 2/2] Remove pass in skip_unwinder_tests

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 13:07:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:33:27 +0200, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 08/25/2012 12:18 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> >If the system does not have unwinder hook it will XFAIL.  XFAIL is not even
> >displayed on screen during interactive run.
> 
> If we do a gdb test, and test is failed because of the misbehaviour,
> we should use XFAIL.

What is "misbehavior" here?


> However, in proc 'skip_XXX' in lib/gdb.exp, we
> check the supported feature of system instead of doing a gdb test,
> so no PASS/FAIL/XFAIL should be emitted.

XFAIL is for "unsupported system feature".

What does XFAIL mean different than "unsupported system feature"?

When will ever be XFAIL emitted if not for "unsupported system feature"?


THanks,
Jan



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