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Re: Call to arms: testsuite failures on various targets
FX Coudert wrote:
wrt to the Subject of the mail, I'm not sure "Call to arms" means
what I thought it meant, after all... I really wanted it to sound
like "call for help" or "call for more arms". Sorry if there was any
confusion in the tone.
The literal meaning of "call to arms" is a call for soldiers to take up
their armaments and be ready to use them. As an idiomatic metaphor, it
means "there's something that we need to go fight, so let's all get
ready and go fight it." This seems to me perfectly appropriate for a
situation in which code-bugs are growing in little-trafficked corners
and in need of a concentrated squashing effort.
- Brooks