Re: Bug#175921: patch: patch works on i386, fails on powerpc
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:55:34PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
Hi,
> Perhaps the code has someplaces where char is explictly assumed to be
> signed.
Very unlikely, patch is highly portable and I've never heard of any such
problems with it.
> And then re-run thetest case and see if now passes.
That's just the point: there is no (reproducible) test case. It
apparently just happened once and silently went away afterwards, which
is why I don't really believe that it's a bug in patch, but some weird
intermittent failure of whatever...
-Michael
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