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+// Test that a type which is invariant with respect to its region
+// parameter used in a covariant way yields an error.
+//
+// Note: see variance-regions-*.rs for the tests that check that the
+// variance inference works in the first place.
+
+struct Invariant<'a> {
+    f: &'a mut &'a isize
+}
+
+fn use_<'b>(c: Invariant<'b>) {
+
+    // For this assignment to be legal, Invariant<'b> <: Invariant<'static>.
+    // Since 'b <= 'static, this would be true if Invariant were covariant
+    // with respect to its parameter 'a.
+
+    let _: Invariant<'static> = c;
+    //~^ ERROR lifetime may not live long enough
+}
+
+fn main() { }