Subject: Re: bug#78985: sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part too long for test command to parse

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:10:30 -0700

On 2025-07-11 20:59, Collin Funk wrote:
> Maybe a solution would be to compare the strings instead of calling
> strold?

Yes, that's been on the 'sort' TODO list for like, forever. It'd also be 
faster than what's in there now. A bit tricky, though, given the 
vagaries of textual floating point formats in different locales.