Re: [boost] Re: new meta-comm regression chart

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-13 18:36:30

thanks for the clarification
At Wednesday 2003-08-13 15:58, you wrote:
>"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> >> > also, I node that IF there are both fail and unexpected pass occur in
> >> > a test it is summarized as fail
> >> >
> >> 
> http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/developer_result_page.html#numeric/interval
> >>
> >>That would seem to be perfectly appropriate.  What do you think it
> >>*should* do?
> >
> > perhaps an indicator of some sort.  It's almost as important to know
> > that you system accepts things that are NOT legal as that it rejects
> > things that are illegal.
>
>That's not what "unexpected pass" means AFAIK.  IIUC it means that you
>labelled a particular test as "expected to fail on this compiler"
>usually due to compiler bugs, but it started working, usually due to
>improved support from lower-level libraries.
>
>--
>Dave Abrahams
>Boost Consulting
>www.boost-consulting.com

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