Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65438 (group make): Regarding the hashing vs. endianness, I don't know. The hash.{c,h} implementation we have was taken, basically verbatim, from the GNU idutils program.
Regarding sorting, doesn't this basically mean just using strcmp (or a small wrapper around it) as the sorting function? For justification I don't know that we really need one; if it's useful to us to sort, we should sort even if users won't find it useful. Someone looking at the output by hand may find it useful although it seems just as likely they will run the output through sort themselves if they want it sorted. It's too bad we don't have a simple way to sort the output in the test framework. It will be annoying if we choose "good" filenames and the test passes, but then we switch our hashing around and it breaks again. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65438> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/