bug#78985: sort-float failure on ppc64, LDBL_MIN fraction part too long for test command to parse

Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2025-07-11 04:28, C. Neidahl wrote:
>> The LDBL_MIN fraction is longer than the DBL_MIN fraction, so it
>> appears as a bigger number to test/expr
>
> Oh, right. Thanks. I installed the attached further patch to fix that.
> This is cleaner anyway.

This test still fails on cfarm110 for me, logs attached.

I was looking at it the other day, but was unable to get a working
version.

I'll see if I have any ideas later.

Collin
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