Bug#463761: cmp: -l option produces bogus output

2008-02-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alain Kalker wrote: Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus. The output values even contain values that are 255. What gives?! The values are shown in octal. May I close

Bug#463761: cmp: -l option produces bogus output

2008-02-03 Thread Alain Kalker
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:11 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Alain Kalker wrote: Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus. The output values even contain values that are 255.

Bug#463761: cmp: -l option produces bogus output

2008-02-02 Thread Alain Kalker
Package: diff Version: 2.8.1-12 Severity: normal Using cmp -l file1 file2 produces bogus differences. Only the byte positions are correct, all but the first 'from' byte are totally bogus. The output values even contain values that are 255. What gives?! I attach a small test case using files