Re: FAIL: MIPS empic3

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:21:16PM -0800, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:04:48 -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > I got many [ ... ]
> 
> see the message that proposed these tests:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-12/msg00483.html
> 
> Specifically, the part right before the end of the non-patch part,
> that says:
> 
> > Of the new tests below, all 3 of the assembler tests and two (of 10)
> > of the linker tests fail.  (I figured it would be good to provide
> > more than just failing tests for the linker, though, since there's
> > basically _no_ coverage there right now.)
> 
> 8-)
> 
> 
> IMO, These should not be XFAIL, because, well, though they currently
> fail, they're real bugs and they've got tractable solutions and IMO we
> shouldn't be marking anything other than 'absolutlely unfixable' bugs
> as XFAIL.
> 

Why not mark them XFAIL for the time being, at least for Linux? I don't
believe they affect Linux.

> In fact, I'm going to post a patch which should address these failures
> within a week or so (time permitting; it's a nasty week and a half
> ahead for me) which addresses them, but I'd like to test it some more
> before I post it.


H.J.