the command, perl -e "print 'x' x 30, \"\n\";"|sort -c
would provoke the memory overrun (though not necessarily the failure).
Add an assertion.
+ Reported by Risto Kankkunen.
Thu Oct 31 17:48:24 1996 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
Changes in release 1.20
Changes in test release 1.19p
+* fix bug in sort -c that sometimes resulted in a segfault
* md5sum's --string option is being deprecated and is no longer documented.
It is still accepted, but will be removed altogether in 1.21.
* tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' no longer fails when LC_CTYPE is set to