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Re: Clean up gdb.c++ tests for dwarf 1
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: jimb at redhat dot com
- Cc: carlton at math dot stanford dot edu, fnasser at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:40:55 -0600
- Subject: Re: Clean up gdb.c++ tests for dwarf 1
Jim B posits:
> Your rationale here is that, since we don't really know which of these
> failures are genuine, can't-be-done-with-Dwarf-1 expected failures,
> and which are GDB bugs, you want to dump them all into the "genuine
> bug" category and start re-categorizing, using our modern
> interpretation of XFAIL and KFAIL?
You could interpret plan (1) that way. Consider the scenario where
someone is still testing gdb with DWARF 1. They are getting a mixture
of FAIL's and XFAIL's now. After plan (1), they will get a lot more
FAIL's and a lot less XFAIL's.
There is a lot of bit rot and lies in the test suite. If my task were
to evaluate c++ support with DWARF 1, then I would *start* by assuming
that all the XFAIL's are lying about the "X" part, and I would treat
them the same as FAIL's anyways. So that corresponds to what you said.
Of course I am hoping that after I dump them all into the 'genuine bug'
category, that they will sit there until DWARF 1 is obsolete and
removed, and no one will ever have to 'start re-categorizing'.
But someone can do that if they need to.
Michael C