Re: RFC: KFAIL DejaGnu patch

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:33:54PM -0500, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Rob Savoye writes:
> > btw - Matt says he'll add the extra fields for ERROR and WARNING to the
> > XML output, which he's hoping will be done as soon as he firms up the DTD.
> > Anything else you need to have that be useful ?
> 
> Now there is an open ended question.  I'll ramble on it for a while.
> 
> ERRORs and WARNINGs: it would help if all ERRORs and WARNINGs went
> through report_test and got treated like the other results, including
> printing the name of the current test script.  Right now I pick this up
> when I am lexing the gdb.sum file.
> 
> Duplicate test names: we have as many as 30 tests in the same file
> with the same name (often named "continue").  Right now I add sequence
> numbers to this when I am lexing the gdb.sum file:
> 
>   gdb.base/foo.exp: continue
>   gdb.base/foo.exp: continue {2}
>   gdb.base/foo.exp: continue {3}
> 
> It would be nice if DejaGnu did this automatically.

That would only be useful if we always marked all tests - which we're
awful about.  continue {2} might be any number of different continue
statements in the test.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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