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Re: [patch] KFAIL gdb/1025
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com,Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:44:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] KFAIL gdb/1025
- References: <ro1isw06dye.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU>
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:18:17PM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> I've been seeing some repeatable failures in gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp;
> this patch KFAILs them, according to PR gdb/1025 that I just filed.
>
> Strangely enough, I'm seeing more failures than Michael does; he only
> sees 4, and those only with i686-pc-linux-gnu/GCC2.95.3/DWARF-2; I'm
> seeing 6 with i686-pc-linux-gnu/GCC3.{1,2}/DWARF2. I don't know
> what's weird about my setup. (For all I know, GCC might even be doing
> optimization that it shouldn't; it's not entirely clear to me from
> skimming the assembly code.)
>
> I've committed the attached patch.
I'm really not comfortable with this use of KFAIL. My hope was that we
would analyze particular failures before KFAILing them off to oblivion.
I spent time fixing these exact six failures a bit under a month ago;
if it isn't working for your setup I want more information.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer