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Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:27:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp
- References: <20020402194252.A20826@nevyn.them.org>
> These tests are testing for a feature that exists either nowhere or just in
> simulators and some remote stubs: that the inferior's output goes through
> GDB and is properly encoded by the MI layer. Since support isn't there for
> many remote debugging stubs or for native, I think these two tests should be
> XFAIL'd. Does that make sense, Andrew? If so, OK to commit this?
I believe GDB's rule for XFAIL is something that can't work (due to an
external constraint) rather than doesn't work (due to a lack of code).
Hence it was marked as a known bug rather than a limitation.
Andrew