On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Joe Buck wrote: > If we allow XFAILing tests that ICE, it should be an extremely rare thing. > I worry that once the precedent is set, the number of XFAIL ICEs will > go up with time, making it more likely that users will experience > compiler crashes.
What's so bad about an ICE compared to e.g. wrong-code? The latter is IMNSHO much much worse. Is it just the technical matter of xfailing it or is there a *logical* reason that I've missed in this discussion and elsewere? brgds, H-P