Re: bug in the unix join command or maybe in the sort command

[Paul Eggert]

Robert Castelo <address@hidden> writes:

> if i followed this right, xmemcoll is called at line 1536 of sort.c
> which calls memcoll at line 45 of xmemcoll.c which calls strcoll at line
> 47 of memcoll.c.

I assume we're talking about coreutils 5.2.1 here?  I don't remember.

Two things.  First, your debugging information is confusing.  Can you
please rebuild with CFLAGS='-g', so that optimization doesn't cause
debugging anomalies?  (If this fixes the problem then we need to look
elsewhere for the bug.)

Then please redo your analysis.  We need to find out exactly what was
passed to strcoll, and what value it returned (I suspect 0), and what
errno was set to afterwards, and what memcoll did afterwards.

Second, can you please try coreutils 5.3.0 instead?

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz

Thanks.