On some pair of files, "diff" reports a diff on identical lines. See the attached archive. At line 1272 of "diff -u out1 out2": @@ -137681,90 +138934,186 @@ 26659 468 462 -26946 +26946 +470 +814 +815 [...] This chunk shouldn't contain: -26946 +26946 There's the same problem without the "-u" option. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)