Why validate?

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Friday 21 November 2008 14:27, Simon Marlow wrote:
> ...
> Digging back through the history, it looks like this problem was introduced 
by:
> 
> Mon Oct 13 17:24:33 BST 2008  Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens at endorphin.org>
>    * Rename symbol macros to a consistant naming scheme
> 
> and should be fixed by changing the two '#undef Sym' directives at line 
> 4677 and  4685 to '#undef SymI_NeedsProto'.  Could you try that and submit 
> a patch?

Thank you very much. Patch attached (where I have taken the liberty of also 
changing line 4691 similarly). Validate presently reports:

> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Fri Nov 21 16:00:30 CET 2008
>     2266 total tests, which gave rise to
>     8445 test cases, of which
>        0 caused framework failures
>     6498 were skipped
>
>     1870 expected passes
>       74 expected failures
>        0 unexpected passes
>        3 unexpected failures
>
> Unexpected failures:
>    Pp004(normal)
>    directory001(normal)
>    divbyzero(normal)

where please ignore Pp004(normal), it is merely part of the "local colour".

> ...

Best regards
Thorkil
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