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Re: diff-2.7.7 creates non POSIX compliant context diff


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: diff-2.7.7 creates non POSIX compliant context diff
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:56:22 -0700 (PDT)

> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> 
> Here is a case where "diff" creates a patch that is not compliant to
> POSIX:2001.

That is a bug in the standard.  GNU diff behaves like traditional Unix
diff on that example.

For a while it's been on my list of things to do to file a defect
report; I'll try to increase the priority of that.



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