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From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com>
To: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Improving support for known testsuite failures
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD_=9DR9tMJGwoErk-cB-byB84fv0z6DFpFir1p6k_iuQnF=Zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc3wDoCi4MM1Vdan=Ztv+EPgA4NTyvAYcUfcDedooc-4SA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 07:16, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, you'd need to maintain a list of known XPASS/FAILs anyway.

Yes, of course.  That's the manifest of things you expect to be broken.

> You can as well do it in the testcases themself (add XFAILs, remove
> XPASSes and open bugreports to not forget about this).  Adding
> a separate filter or whatever just looks completely wrong to me.

The main motivation is precisely not have to deal with dejagnu's xfail
mechanisms.  They are too cumbersome  (details upthread).

Perhaps if there was a global marker that one could add, that would
solve my problem too.  I think I'll start with a post-check filter in
contrib/


Diego.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07 15:28 Diego Novillo
2011-09-07 18:43 ` Andreas Jaeger
2011-09-07 19:57 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-09-08  8:31 ` Richard Guenther
2011-09-08 11:05   ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 11:16     ` Richard Guenther
2011-09-08 11:34       ` Diego Novillo [this message]
2011-09-08 11:49         ` Richard Guenther
2011-09-08 12:14           ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 12:20             ` Richard Guenther
2011-09-08 12:26               ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 12:30                 ` Richard Guenther
2011-09-08 12:33                   ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 13:24         ` Richard Earnshaw
2011-09-08 13:55           ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 14:03             ` Richard Earnshaw
2011-09-08 16:41           ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-09-23  0:07     ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2011-09-23 13:11       ` Diego Novillo
2011-09-08 16:39   ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-09-08 22:27   ` Michael Hope

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