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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