On 08/16/2012 10:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> FYI, here's the required test: >> > >> > (yes 7|head -10; echo 1)|sed 's/^/1 /'|sort -k2,2 --p=1 -S32b -u >> > >> > Without the if (key) { ... } part of my patch, it would fail. >> > I had to tweak the number of '7's (s/11/10) in the input to make >> > it trigger. > Hmm... The above is arch-specific. > It triggers the bug on i686, but not on x86_64.
This triggers the bug on my x86_64: $ ~/cu> (yes 7|head -n 100; echo 1)|sed 's/^/1 /'| src/sort -k2,2 --p=1 -S1k -u 1 7 However, a little different line does not: $ ~/cu> (yes 7|head -n 10; echo 1)|sed 's/^/1 /'| src/sort -k2,2 --p=1 -S1k -u 1 1 1 7 $ ~/cu> (yes 7|head -n 100; echo 1)|sed 's/^/1 /'| src/sort -k2,2 --p=1 -S1M -u 1 1 1 7 Have a ncie day, Berny