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: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 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: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:53:10 -0700

On 2025-07-12 04:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> -          : a == b ? 0
> +          : a == b ? numcompare (sa, sb)

That fails for string pairs like "10" and "1e1".
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