Re: ddraw: Reset the viewport data before each test

[James Hawkins]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Paul Vriens  wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Fixes bug 13643 and the ddraw:d3d tests.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > - Reset the viewport data before each test.
> >
> > dlls/ddraw/tests/d3d.c |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> Can you explain why we have to do this? The fact that only Paul Millar's
> winetest seems to suffer from this is a bit odd, isn't it?
>
> I'm just wondering if there are more issues like this that introduces
> failures in the tests or even worse lets tests succeed.

It's a driver bug, and I don't think we really need to worry about
explaining that too much.  Read Alexander's comments below, minus the
part about this having anything to do with Wine.