Subject: bug#77840: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:37:40 -0700

On 2025-06-22 01:35, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Why are the values negative?

As I recall, these are pointers into the middle of arrays, so negative 
indexes are allowed as long as they aren't too negative.