I admit I am surprised that
Commit: 46988651d91fbea7f611287e5d8320239e72108d URL: http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=46988651d91fbea7f611287e5d...
Author: Nicolas Le Cam <niko.lecam at gmail.com> Date: Fri Apr 29 23:57:09 2011 +0200
gdi32: Remove a set but unused variable.
has been applied, for I had proposed this very patch a year ago when Alexandre had rejected it with
It seems pretty clear that it should be used, not removed. [ http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-May/083517.html ]
I tried to take that into account by updating the patch accordingly
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2010-May/088317.html
which, unexplicably to me, broke the tests so it was not applied:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-May/083850.html
Now my original patch was re-submitted by Nicolas and applied. Was Alexandre's analysis incorrect in the original case, did he just fail to catch the mistake this time around, or is it something else?
Gerald