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 20:59, Collin Funk wrote:
> Maybe a solution would be to compare the strings instead of calling
> strold?

Yes, that's been on the 'sort' TODO list for like, forever. It'd also be 
faster than what's in there now. A bit tricky, though, given the 
vagaries of textual floating point formats in different locales.
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