On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:51:06 +0200, Roland McGrath wrote:
I think the reason I made them non-optional is that it's such an
easy bug
to write code that ignores the bias when it shouldn't.
OK.
For internal functions where it simplifies the code and we can be
fairly
confident we are considering all the strange cases properly (and ideally
testing them all in the test suite), I wouldn't mind it.
None of the functions I patched were internal only.
Thanks,
Jan