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[PATCH] grep: remove unusable code

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Message #8 received at 43863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif <at> shlomifish.org>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: 43863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43863: [PATCH] grep: remove unusable code
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:53:47 +0300

Hi Norihiro Tanaka!

On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:55:50 +0900
Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Codes described in attached patch in this mail is dead.
> 
> These codes make sense when a maltibyte character is returned in case
> conversion for single byte character, but I believe that their cases are
> removed in commit 016e590a8198009bce0e1078f6d4c7e037e2df3c.

Do you mean the code is "unusable" (= "cannot be used";
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unusable ) or is it "unused" (= "not being
used": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unused )?

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