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Subject: Re: FYI - ACATS test results for GCC 8.1.1 (mingw)
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On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 8:16:53 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> Note that I should maybe categorise some of the tests as XFAIL (expected
> to fail), e.g. cxag003, so that when the bug is corrected it will show
> up as an XPASS (wasn't expected to pass).

No, please don't do that.  That would be incredibly confusing.  A long-term=
 bug is still a bug.  (A deviance from the _LRM_ is still a bug, even if Ro=
bert Dewar coded it himself in 1993 and GNAT has stated officially that the=
 sun will burn out before they fix it.)  Just because we expect a bug to be=
 there long-term, doesn't mean that that test-case should cover up the bug =
to cook the books to make it look good.