punt test_strerror
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Thu Aug 23 22:52:00 GMT 2001
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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