Using bugzilla to track XFAILs

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:

> I like the idea also, but we need to make sure we do it carefully.  Often 
> a test is xfailed when it isn't really a problem with the compiler but 
> with the run-time environment.  Take, for example, 
> g77.f-torture/execute/io0.f, which is xfailed on several embedded 
> platforms because there is no support for stat() in these environments.

I think the proper result for such a test--one which only makes sense
when certain facilities are available--is UNSUPPORTED.

I believe this can be done easily enough in the f-torture framework by
having io0.x call unsupported and then return 1.

Ian