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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2025 14:28:04 +0000
From:      Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, "dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org>, Siva Mahadevan <me@svmhdvn.name>
Subject:   Re: git: 27ff0bbcfd27 - main - libc/limits_test: add no-op testcase to satisfy kyua
Message-ID:  <1F88B5B5-D18A-4CF4-90A3-138EC7AB13A4@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <6932e8a2.2d8b4.6f0b56d3@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <6932e8a2.2d8b4.6f0b56d3@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On 5 Dec 2025, at 14:13, Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> The branch main has been updated by fuz:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=27ff0bbcfd27df588d3f486cb21180a26031b889
> 
> commit 27ff0bbcfd27df588d3f486cb21180a26031b889
> Author:     Siva Mahadevan <me@svmhdvn.name>
> AuthorDate: 2025-10-23 13:17:25 +0000
> Commit:     Robert Clausecker <fuz@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2025-12-05 14:12:46 +0000
> 
>    libc/limits_test: add no-op testcase to satisfy kyua
> 
>    This test suite is purely tested with compile-time assertions, so
>    it needs a dummy runtime test to ensure that kyua reports the
>    file as passing.

Why are we building and installing tests that do nothing at run time?
Why are these not just compile-time assertions that fail the build,
like we’ve got in the form of test-includes to verify headers include
their dependencies?

Jessica



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