GNU bug report logs - #78985
sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part too long for test command to parse

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "C. Neidahl" <opna2608 <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 21:57:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "C. Neidahl" <opna2608 <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: bug#78985: sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part too long for test command to parse
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.
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