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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Actually mainline was already safe, but it won't hurt either.

As I replied to rms, it hurts from a maintenance point of view.  You
see it and it makes no sense, especially in the context of surrounding
cases which haven't been changed.  If you want to modify it for some
reason, you have to decide whether it's bogus or there's something
else you don't understand.