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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu_vector.exp: Respect `should_kfail' for PR8549
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ziw0sik1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d1sxs8zo.fsf@oc1027705133.ibm.com> (Andreas Arnez's message of	"Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:46:19 +0100")

Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Doing the KFAIL based on the target triplet would miss the point of this
> test on s390x, because on the same target "s390x-ibm-linux-gnu" the test
> shall succeed if the CPU has vector registers and the vector ABI is
> used, but is known to fail if a non-vector ABI is used.  (Note that the
> main reason for enhancing the gnu_vector test case was to verify GDB's
> correct treatment of the s390x vector ABI.)

Could you add some comments in the test case about what you said above?

>
> But testing against some expected return value in this case is certainly
> wrong.  I suggest to change my patch like follows.  WDYT?

That is fine with me.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19 16:33 Andreas Arnez
2016-01-19 17:33 ` Yao Qi
2016-01-19 18:46   ` Andreas Arnez
2016-01-20  9:32     ` Yao Qi [this message]

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