GNU diff and missing last newline

[Edward Arthur]

Hi,

We're using 

% diff --version
diff - GNU diffutils 2.7.1

on Solaris and Linux.  I use 'tkdiff' as a frontend to 'diff' and
occassionally I like to diff two logfiles where one is incomplete
and may be missing a newline on the last line.  'diff' returns an
error to stderr which tkdiff interprets as a bad thing.

I have hacked tkdiff to ignore stderr but I'd rather add on option
to diff to not print an error when a trailing newline (on the last
line) is missing.  Alternatively I could just ignore whitespace but
I'd rather not ignore whitespace on all lines.  Is there any
development going on with diff?

Thanks,
/Ed