diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3a8f07b5f..3409bc033 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ New in spot 1.99.2a (not yet released)
     - Fix spurious failure of uniq.test under different locales.
     - ltlcross now recovers from out-of-memory errors during
       state-space products.
+    - bitvect.test was failing on 32bit with assertions enabled
+      because of a bug in the test case.
 
 New in spot 1.99.2 (2015-07-18)
 
diff --git a/src/tests/bitvect.cc b/src/tests/bitvect.cc
index 3e88efabd..46f31e9b6 100644
--- a/src/tests/bitvect.cc
+++ b/src/tests/bitvect.cc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-// Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Laboratoire de Recherche et Développement
-// de l'Epita (LRDE).
+// Copyright (C) 2013, 2014, 2015 Laboratoire de Recherche et
+// Développement de l'Epita (LRDE).
 //
 // This file is part of Spot, a model checking library.
 //
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ int main()
   ECHO(x);
 
   std::cout << "subset? " << w->is_subset_of(*x)
-	    << ' ' << w->is_subset_of(*v) << '\n';
+	    << ' ' << v->is_subset_of(*w) << '\n';
 
   for (size_t i = 0; i < 30; ++i)
     w->push_back((i & 3) == 0);