URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68871>
Summary: [troff] `ne` and `sv` requests should throw "range"
warning if argument is negative
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Mon 02 Nov 2026 05:13:13 AM UTC
Category: Formatter
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 02 Nov 2026 05:13:13 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
A zero argument to these requests is a no-op but essentially harmless.
A negative argument makes no damn sense.
Warn.
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