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Re: to XFAIL or not to XFAIL
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:51:47 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
> If we had a third case, say KFAIL, for "known to fail but ignore it
> anyway," I'd be happy to go along with your policy. Using XFAIL for
> both "ignore until later" and "impossible to fix on this target" makes
> it difficult to assess the overall quality of the software.
We have UNSUPPORTED and UNTESTED for `impossible to fix on this
target' and `impossible to test on this target' respectively.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>