Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> 
>> Is this something that could be helped by use of indent(1)?  To unify
>> the brace style and make the source more amenable to diff?  I presume
>> you are already using "diff -w" to ignore whitespace.
> 
> Neither is likely to help.
> 
> Since the files are being compared to a merged copy, the indentation and
> whitespace are identical.
> 
> The issue seems to be that diff stops after matching even small chunks.
>  It could possibly be something like lack of backtracking in the diff
> algorithms.

Is is possible to come up with a relatively simple test case that
demonstrates bad behavior?

..jim


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