Re: Abort in sort

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following command cause sort to abort:
>
> $  LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 sort
> sort: sort.c:714: inittables_mb: Assertion `mblength != (size_t)-1 && 
> mblength != (size_t)-2' failed.
>
> Of course, the locale settings don't make much sense, but sort should not
> abort in any way.

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the report.
However, I don't see how this can be a bug in sort from coreutils-5.0.
since there is no such assertion or use of `mblength' or 'inittables_mb'
in sort.c.  So I presume this problem is in code from some unofficial change.

Jim