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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-05 10:08:19


Alisdair Meredith <alisdair.meredith_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> ...although now the only expected failure tests we have left are
>> compile-fail. So I don't know what to do with the others.
>
> Could we introduce a third result. Pass and fail we know, 'error' would
> the test could not actually be run. This would reflect a compile fail
> for link/runtime tests, missing/corrupt files for compile tests (perhaps
> due to CVS corruption) and probably a couple more corner cases I haven't
> thought about yet.

Those get flagged as "fail" right now. I think introducing more
distinctions might be difficult, though I'm not certain. I'll take a
look at it.

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