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Re: Remove unused libm-test expected-failure mechanism


On 05/05/2013 11:07 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 5 May 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
>> It is my opinion that such an expected failure mechanism should be
>> handled by a higher level test framework, and that libm-test.inc
>> should simply report the list of all passed or failed tests given
>> that each test has a unique name.
> 
>  ... or that a test was unsupported / unresolved (e.g. because setting the 
> rounding mode failed).
> 
> But first we need to be able to track pass / fail information for whole 
> tests, before tracking "unresolved" etc. and individual assertions.  What 
> happened with Tomas Dohnalek's patch from last September / October?  It 
> looks like the discussion tailed off with 
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-10/msg00278.html>, but getting 
> PASS/FAIL lines for each overall test run from the makefile ought to be an 
> incremental piece of progress towards having the other statuses and more 
> precise information from within individual tests; someone probably needs 
> to pick up that patch or else decide that a different approach is needed.

It's in the pipeline, but not until later.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 


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