bug in 'diff' version 2.8.1

[George Bruce]

Hi,

 

We had been using 'diff -iw results expected_results' to compare simulation
outputs.

 

Version 2.7.2 worked without problems, but version 2.8.1 hangs when
comparing very large files.

 

The basic format of the files is shown below and in the failure case the
file lengths were over 19 Mbytes.

 

<------------------------>

Copro Exit:     1

Entry Function: 0000982C

Return Address: 000087E0

-- Memory Change Dump:<addr>:<data> --

00110224:07FFFDDC

00110228:00000053

0011022C:00000008

00110230:0000000D

00110234:DEADBE68

00110238:00000002

0011023C:00000010

00110240:00000003

00110244:00000002

00110248:00000000

0011024C:00000008

00110250:00000010

 

Is this a known problem ?

 

Regards

George