[Bug testsuite/25352] xfail within dg-do command has no effect

[ghazi at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #9 from ghazi at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-05-15 17:47 -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> My recommendations are to document, in the description of test directives in
> the GCC Internals manual, that xfail for dg-do is only honored for dg-do run
> and ignored for other keywords, recommending the use of dg-xfail-if instead;
> and to remove the xfail section from the 27 tests that use it when it's
> ignored.
> I'll do these if it sounds reasonable.  I don't think this is worth working
> around in the GCC testsuite support or fixing in DejaGnu.

Sounds fine.  I just want to clear up the confusion.  There may be some
similarly vague stuff in the Wiki (on the topic of testcases) that should be
clarified as well IMHO.

Thanks!


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