Re: bug in 'diff' version 2.8.1

[Paul Eggert]

"George Bruce" <address@hidden> writes:

> We had been using 'diff -iw results expected_results' to compare
> outputs.  simulation Version 2.7.2 worked without problems, but
> outputs.  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....
>
> Is this a known problem ?

No.  Thanks for reporting it.  Can you please make the files available
via FTP so that we can reproduce the problem?  Or if that's not
convenient, perhaps you can write a little program that could output
synthetic files that would let us reproduce the problem?  Thanks.