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Re: Abort in sort
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Abort in sort |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:46:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
|> > The following command cause sort to abort:
|> >
|> > $ LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 sort
|> > sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Assertion `mblength != (size_t)-1 &&
mblength != (size_t)-2' failed.
|> >
|> > Of course, the locale settings don't make much sense, but sort should not
|> > abort in any way.
|>
|> Hi Andreas,
|>
|> Thanks for the report.
|> However, I don't see how this can be a bug in sort from coreutils-5.0.
|> since there is no such assertion or use of `mblength' or 'inittables_mb'
|> in sort.c. So I presume this problem is in code from some unofficial change.
Yes, sorry for the bogus report. This is indeed a bug in the unofficial
i18n patches. Apologies for not checking beforehand.
Andreas.
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