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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#7214: sort --debug maps large old-style field number to 0 in diagnostic |
Date: | Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:27:28 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
tags 7214 wontfix close 7214 stop (triaging old bugs) On 14/10/10 10:48 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/14/10 05:44, Jim Meyering wrote:*val = SIZE_MAX;+ if (debug) /* Note --debug must come before keys to diagnose this. */ + error (0, 0, _("%" PRIuMAX " is too large, using %zu"), n, *val);That does sound like an improvement (that would require comment changes),No, it's better to silently treat large field numbers as if they were infinity.
8 years later, the change has not been committed - so closing as "wontfix". -assaf
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