"Christopher Friesen" <[email protected]> writes:
> How do you ever know that new change introduced no new bugs?
Changing comments doesn't change generated code or your tools are
screwed. Trivial changes - you can be reasonably sure, too. Note
it's different from not having bugs at all.
> Maybe
> there was a latent race condition that is activated by timing
> differences caused by the new code.
Then the bug already existed, you aren't adding any.
> The safe bet is to simply rename the final -rc with no further changes.
Safe? You can't be really safe here. Bad luck and version string
change (compile time or -rc* removal) will trigger disaster.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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