------- Comment #4 from janis at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-12-13 19:08 ------- xfail within a dg-do command other than run has no effect, at least not with DejaGnu 1.4.4 used with GCC at least as far back as 3.0. The DejaGnu documentation doesn't mention the dg-* directives. The comments in dejagnu/dg.exp file implies that xfail should be recognized for all dg-do options.
There are 50+ tests in gcc/testsuite that use xfail with dg-do assemble, compile, and link, so perhaps it worked at one time. The generated tests in gcc/testsuite/gcc.test-framework only test xfail with "dg-do run", and there are no permanent tests for xfail with dg-do and other actions. There's undoubtedly a way for the GCC dg scripts to capture the information that the test's dg-do had an xfail, although it will probably be ugly. I'll keep investigating to find out just how ugly it will need to be. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25352
