------- Comment #8 from janis at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-05-11 00:51 ------- I had forgotten all about this. Today I checked to see how older versions of DejaGnu and GCC tests handled xfail for dg-do keywords other than "run". I only went back as far as GCC 3.0.4 and DejaGnu 1.4, but they also ignored xfail in dg-do for preprocess/compile/assemble/link.
There are currently 27 tests that use this construct: three in libstdc++-v3 and 24 in gcc. My recommendations are to document, in the description of test directives in the GCC Internals manual, that xfail for dg-do is only honored for dg-do run and ignored for other keywords, recommending the use of dg-xfail-if instead; and to remove the xfail section from the 27 tests that use it when it's ignored. I'll do these if it sounds reasonable. I don't think this is worth working around in the GCC testsuite support or fixing in DejaGnu. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25352
