On some pair of files, "diff" reports a diff on identical lines. I reported https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16848 against diff 3.3 a few years ago, but diff 3.6 (under Debian/unstable, x86_64) has a similar problem. See the attached archive. "out.diff", generated with "diff -u out1 out2", has at line 12622: @@ -241913,9 +241895,9 @@ 3 4 5 -L: 409 -L: 409 -2 +L: 361 +L: 361 +2 1 2 4 And if I run "diff -u -I L out1 out2", I also get the above chunk, while it shouldn't appear. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)