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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [pushed] Invert test in gdb.ada/ptype_tagged_param.exp
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 21:11:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af6eaddb-e0cd-4988-0e97-706f18b70ebc@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0vfpu95.fsf@tromey.com>

On 2023-01-27 9:01 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> writes:
> 
>>> kfail "no debug info" $gdb_test_name
> 
> Pedro> Why is this a kfail instead of an xfail?  Is there really a GDB bug here?
> 
> It's just my perennial inability to distinguish the two.  There's no gdb
> bug, this seems to be a compiler issue.  If changing it to xfail is
> correct, let me know and I will do it.  

:-)

Yes, kfail is correct.

> And endeavor to remember that kfail is for gdb bugs.

Here's how I memorize it:

 xfail - e(X)ternal issue
 kfail - (K)nown bug

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-27 17:24 Tom Tromey
2023-01-27 20:15 ` Pedro Alves
2023-01-27 21:01   ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-27 21:11     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2023-01-30 15:03       ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-30 15:22         ` Pedro Alves

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