tags 7214 wontfix
close 7214
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 14/10/10 10:48 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/14/10 05:44, Jim Meyering wrote:
*val = SIZE_MAX;
+ if (debug) /* Note --debug must come before keys to diagnose this. */
+ error (0, 0, _("%" PRIuMAX " is too large, using %zu"), n, *val);
That does sound like an improvement (that would require comment changes),
No, it's better to silently treat large field numbers as if they were infinity.
8 years later, the change has not been committed - so closing as "wontfix".
-assaf
