From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: bredelin@ucsd.edu, martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <199806292145.OAA10151@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg01065.html

> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:16:14 +0200
> From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>

> > Does anyone know if these failures will be fixed soon?  

> I suggest that you look closely at the individual failures and decide
> for yourself what kind of problem they constitute.

xfail was invented to solve this problem.  Your suggestion I feel is a
step backwards from just using the technology that already exists.