On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:

>>> Why do some tests include library code directly in the first place?
>>
>> Because they test the code and the more we can test the better.
>
> All tests test code :) What's the difference in case of these specific
> testes? Do they test code on lower level than public library's interface?

Isn't this sort of obvious? Read the comments at the top of lib558.c ?

> Which ones do this? Are they in any way marked/documented they do this?

See the comments. Test 558 and 559 do this. If there's any particular need
that show up we can of course invent a tag for them. Up until now we've had no
need.

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