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Re: punt test_strerror

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: punt test_strerror
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 23 Aug 2001 22:45:15 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
References: <20010824044631.CB26E994AE@perdition.linnaean.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Any objection to dropping the strerror test from string/tester.c?  All it
> does is test that strerror matches _sys_errlist, which it always will since
> they're being linked in from the same library.  And on the Hurd, there is
> no _sys_errlist, so we can't build the tester.

Well, the current test isn't useful.  But let's have a test which at
least calls strerror a few times for some well-defined error numbers.
No need to compare the result.  The point is that in a cleam 'make
check' run strerror otherwise would probably not be called at all.

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References:
- punt test_strerror
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