[bug #55027] [PATCH] contrib/hdtbl/hdmisc.tmac: Define register '<<'

[Ingo Schwarze]

Update of bug #55027 (project groff):

                Category:                    None => Macro - others         
                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Well read the comments, the register \n[<<] is obviously meant to contain the
vertical blank space at the top of a new column in columnated text - though
how that information is supposed to get into that register is unclear to me
right now.  So there may be a bug - or missing information in the
documentation if ".nr <<" is supposed to be set by the user.

What you are doing here is absolutely not how software development is done. 
"I don't understand it, so i will change the code."  NO.  "There is a warning
that i don't understand, so i will silence it without understanding it."  NO.

A warning is actually useful if the code is fishy and nobody understands yet
whether there is an issue or what the issue is exactly, to remind people that
better understanding of the point is needed.

And again: it is trivial to find warnings (maybe with the exception of
warnings that can only be found with unusual tools or compilers), they do not
need to be in the bugtracker.  The real work required is to figure out whether
there is an actual problem and if so, to implement a *correct* fix.  Until
then, the warning has to stay.  Saying the obvious, "there is a warning", is a
waste of everybody's time.

I suggest to close this report as useless - but since others disagreed in the
past, i'll not do the closing myself.  Somebody else please close it.

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