Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>> (gdb) print merge_buffer_size
>> $1 = 185835729
>
> Wow. That is a huge number. It indicates that there is at least one
> line of text in your file that is 185 MB long. Or, that there is a
> bug in 'sort' or in your compiler or debugger or whatnot.
>
> Can you check all the lines in your file again? Something like this
> should do it:
>
> gawk '{if (maxlen < length) maxlen = length} END { print maxlen}' bigfile.txt
Or this:
wc --max-line-length bigfile.txt
aka
wc -L bigfile.txt
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