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Subject: Re: bug in XCopyArea() of X11R3 Xsun server
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Date: 17 May 89 16:11:49 GMT
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    I would not want to see people defensively coding
    all their shifts in this fashion because one
    machine got it wrong. It will penalize all the
    machines that got it right.

I only wish we could take this attitude and get away with it!  We spend
half our lives mangling X code to work with each vendor's particular set
of bugs in their compiler/OS/utilities.  (And IBM has been one of those
offenders :-)