Re: Abort in sort

[Andreas Schwab]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
|> > The following command cause sort to abort:
|> >
|> > $  LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 sort
|> > sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Assertion `mblength != (size_t)-1 && 
mblength != (size_t)-2' failed.
|> >
|> > Of course, the locale settings don't make much sense, but sort should not
|> > abort in any way.
|> 
|> Hi Andreas,
|> 
|> Thanks for the report.
|> However, I don't see how this can be a bug in sort from coreutils-5.0.
|> since there is no such assertion or use of `mblength' or 'inittables_mb'
|> in sort.c.  So I presume this problem is in code from some unofficial change.

Yes, sorry for the bogus report.  This is indeed a bug in the unofficial
i18n patches.  Apologies for not checking beforehand.

Andreas.

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