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Re: New testcase (compare2.c) for bogus -Wsign-compare warnings


On Apr  6, 2000, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> Then it wouldn't be very "inspiring" now would it? :-)

Indeed.

> BTW, new testcases are not regressions, IMHO.

Of course they're not, but when someone writes a patch, runs `make
check' and finds a failure that wasn't there a day or two before, he
might think it's a regression caused by his patch.  That's where
testcases named after dates help (not that I like this naming
convention :-)

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