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

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-07-11 15:25, Collin Funk wrote:
> This test still fails on cfarm110 for me, logs attached.

I guess that's a different issue, due to the problem that Gnulib defines 
LDBL_MAX to be a value greater than what one can compute from source code.

I guess a fix on that platform would be to shrink LDBL_MAX by a factor 
of 2, and similarly for LDBL_NORM_MAX. That is, go back to the GCC way 
of doing things.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.