GNU bug report logs - #77840
Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>
Cc: 77840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77840: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:14:23 -0700

On 2025-06-13 01:03, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Another question seems to be, why is the null pointer used when calling fwrite()? A check should avoid this, rather early, and report or set some failure status…

No, that would be a bad way to "fix" things. We should find the real 
problem and fix it, not paper over it.
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