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Re: RFC: Improving support for known testsuite failures
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). ÂAdding
> 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.