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Re: patch/RFC/RFT detect ICE in libjava testsuite
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- Cc: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 15 May 2006 19:25:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: patch/RFC/RFT detect ICE in libjava testsuite
- References: <20060512231635.GA7197@us.ibm.com> <44690068.7040500@avtrex.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "David" == David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:
David> I tried the patch, and it does indeed seem to produce FAILs when the
David> compiler ICEs and the xfail file contains 'shouldfail'. However I
David> have been unsuccessful supressing the FAIL messages.
'shouldfail' has a specific meaning, namely that the test contains
invalid code and we are checking to make sure the compiler rejects it.
In this situation we always want an ICE to fail, since this means that
the compiler failed in the wrong way.
For a while we put in test cases before fixing the bug, so there is
all this xfail stuff around. These days I think we're more likely to
simply not check in a test case until we're ready to actually fix the
problem.
So, I think something like 'xfail-shouldfail' probably isn't really
needed. We can just hold the test case in bugzilla until we're ready.
What do you think?
Tom