GNU bug report logs - #7731
Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard) macintosh system

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net>

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net>
To: 7731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7731: Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard) macintosh system
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:21:07 -0800

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I upgraded to version 8.7 coreutils on several systems a few days ago.

Works fine on Snow Leopard (MACHTYPE = x86_64), but I think I've run  
into an obscure bug on Leopard (MACHTYPE = i386).

The test command is :

sort -u -s --key=1,1 sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata > xxx

works with version 8.5, crashes with version 8.7, on i386 (Leopard)  
macintosh. Both versions work on x86_64 (snow leopard).

It requires a pretty big file. This file has 579k records. Subsets of  
400k or so records seem to work.

The test data file is available at :

ftp://ftp.bcgsc.ca/public/adelaney/sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata


Happy Holidays....


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