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Re: [testsuite] add gdb.cp/gdb1355.exp


Okay, I'm willing to make it an XFAIL rather than a KFAIL.
I remember those threads.  The XFAIL feels odd but it does stand
for "external" and this bug is indeed a textbook external bug.

Consider the standard example:


(gdb) detach PID

On old windows systems it couldn't work. GDB reporting an error was an XFAIL, GDB dumping core was a fail.

As far as making it a FAIL goes, I think David's argument comes down to:
people pay attention to FAIL, but not to XFAIL or KFAIL.  I really don't
like that situation.  I see the question as: whether to fight the
situation and use more accurate XFAIL/KFAIL rather than generic FAIL, or
to acquiesce to situation and give people what they expect to see.
I favor the former.

David is correct. Look at the number of additions to gdb.asm since it was changed to FAIL instead of ERROR.


However, we've adopted KFAIL XFAIL.

I also intend again proposing that existing XFAILS get yanked.

Andrew



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