Regressions on mainline\

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Jun 22 00:10:00 GMT 2004


Richard Henderson wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:44:30PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>  
>
>>OK.  Would you please make sure that the PR is marked for 3.5.0 and 
>>XFAIL the test?
>>    
>>
>
>The problem is that it doesn't fail everywhere.  Not on i686-linux
>for instance.  So: do you prefer FAIL on some targets, or XPASS on
>the opposite set?
>
The latter.  Nobody is likely to worry that they caused a problem if 
they see an XPASS; at worst, they'll investigate to see if they really 
solved the problem.  With a FAIL, people have to do extra work to 
confirm that they didn't cause the problem before checking in, for example.

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