On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:44:56AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So, these are xfailed, but still produce quite a bit of noise on both
> > > > x86_64-darwin and x86_64-linux since they fail to produce a working
> > > > executable
> > > > and then xfail. Should we move them to skip or link only and xfail them.
> > > > With
> > > > link only they do manage to be quiet in the logs and we'll still notice 
> > > > if
> > > > they start linking correctly and can move them to run then.
> > > > 
> > > > thoughts? pre-approved? :)
> > > 
> > > Add a means to XFAIL the link of an execute test, if such a means doesn't
> > > already exist in the testsuite infrastructure.
> > 
> > As opposed to changing the test to a link, find a way to xfail at the link
> > stage instead of at the run stage?
> 
> Yes.  Some marking so that the compile/link is expected to fail (and so 
> doesn't produce a WARNING) but if it succeeds (XPASS) then the execute 
> test is run.

I'll take a look.

Janis

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