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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>2002-04-08 09:20:39 -0400
committerAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>2002-04-08 17:00:37 +0000
commit78210658cae7b303c01be2599b05071639c1f618 (patch)
tree5a2f78995883b68add6964e62863aa50913cd7ab /lib/sort.t
parentc532c9d188d34825735bd84db34c29ace8f8f6b2 (diff)
downloadperl-78210658cae7b303c01be2599b05071639c1f618.tar.gz
Re: lib/sort.t failure -- real PATCH enclosed
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10204081317040.20618-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15811
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/sort.t')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sort.t b/lib/sort.t
index 52d1d8be0e..fbeaacfb5f 100644
--- a/lib/sort.t
+++ b/lib/sort.t
@@ -124,11 +124,8 @@ sub main {
$status = checkequal(\@sorted, $unsorted);
is($status, '', "contents ok for size $ts");
}
- # P5P: The following test (#58) has been observed failing on
- # a solaris 2.8 platform. Failure doesn't mean that sort is
- # misbehaving, it is just exhibiting an exceedingly unlikely
- # pattern of breaking ties. If you see no other failures,
- # it should be perfectly safe to install.
+ # If the following test (#58) fails, see the comments in pp_sort.c
+ # for Perl_sortsv().
if ($expect_unstable) {
ok($unstable_num > 0, 'Instability ok');
}