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Re: [patch] KFAIL gdb/1025


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.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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