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

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 12/07/2025 16:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-07-12 04:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> -          : a == b ? 0
>> +          : a == b ? numcompare (sa, sb)
> 
> That fails for string pairs like "10" and "1e1".

Hah I thought of that but missed this impacts the --unique case.
I added a test case to ensure equivalency is honored.

cheers,
Pádraig
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