Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about if we install the following coreutils patch?
> It should catch the more-general problem, if I understand it aright.
>
> My understanding is that the following little C program:
>
> #include <stdbool.h>
> #include <assert.h>
> int main (void) {
> assert (-1 - (_Bool) 0 < 0);
> assert (-1 - (bool) 0 < 0);
> return 0;
> }
>
> will have an assertion failure with the buggy IBM compiler.
> If it doesn't, we'd need to modify the stdbool.m4 part of this fix.
>
> 2005-10-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * m4/stdbool.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Check that bool
> promotes to int, not unsigned int, to catch the AIX 5.3
> compiler bug.
> * src/sort.c (sortlines_temp): Undo previous change, since
> the above should catch it.
That looks fine.
Thanks for the better fix!
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