Questions about the gcc testsuite

[Rob Savoye]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:09:18PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 03:33 PM, Ryan Smiderle wrote:
> > The method for actually setting/removing xfails in the testsuite is 
> > quite a hassle.
> It is exactly as we designed it.  :-(

 Personally, I hated the concept of expected failures, cause it hides problems.
When something is broken, you should be beaten over the head with it till it's
fixed. But some people wanted this ability really bad, so I added it.

> It is unfortunate that dejagnu doesn't have such a converter, as 
> everyone else rolls their own.

  The output of DejaGnu was designed to be predictable, so it could be
post processed by other scripts. It would be possible to make DejaGnu kick
out multiple formats (there is now XML output), but it's probably just as
easy to parse the sum file. It would be good however to distribute conversion
scripts so everyone wouldn't have to roll their own. So if anyone has any
good ones, how about submitting them ?

	- rob -