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Re: [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS
- From: Ulrich Weigand <weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de>
- To: cagney at gnu dot org (Andrew Cagney)
- Cc: weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de (Ulrich Weigand), gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:07:58 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [commit] Zap XPASS from watchpoints.exp; Was: [PATCH] Remove XPASS
Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hmm, you tripped over a landmine :-(. In the past many of GDB's
> testcases were incorrectly XFAILed (as a way of hiding design flaws that
> were thought to be unfixable / or the individual had no intention of
> fixing ...). XFAIL only applies to problems eXternal to GDB (OS bugs,
> ...) which these are not.
I hadn't been aware of this interpretation of XFAIL in gdb; my understanding
(and current use in gcc) is that XFAIL means eXpected failure ...
>I've removed the offending XFAIL junk.
Thanks!
Bye,
Ulrich
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