Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Junio, > ... >> Thanks. I think it is much better to prepare these tests like this >> patch does to be broken when phrasing changes---that would give >> feedback and confidence to the person who is changing the message >> and/or the logic to emit the message. >> >> Where does the constant 128 come from, by the way? If it is from errno.h >> then we will soon hear breakage report from NonStop folks, I predict >> ;-) > > It comes from `die()`: > ... > exit(128); OK, so hopefully we wouldn't see any platform specific variations. Good. Thanks for digging.