bug#73474: Bug in factor utility of coreutils

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-09-25 13:48, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note factor does give the correct result on amd64 at least
> without the asserts:

Yes, as far as I know the existing code works correctly on all practical 
platforms. It's only pedantic/checking platforms, where shifts by 
negative or by too-large result in crashes or diagnostics, where the 
existing code fails.

The bug is easy to fix and the fixdoesn't hurt performance 
significantly, so I installed the attached. Closing the bug report.

While looking into this I got seduced by the prospect of making 'factor' 
a bit better (e.g., eliminate some recursion and fix some buffering 
issues) and installed a bunch of followup patches for 'factor'. Yeah, 
yeah, I should know better....

0001-factor-port-to-platforms.patch
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