No other diff program comes even close to BC in terms of diff output
quality and merge capability. I am willing to go through much more hoops
than this just to be able to use this under linux.
And also, to avoid any misrepresentation, their support in determining
the cause of the issue was very good.
The problem seems to be that their linux build is using an older gcc
version. This was causing an ABI related crash in the strstr function,
which was using SSE instructions.
So at some point, they will probably switch to a newer compiler and the
problem will go away. But if I mail their support, it would take many
messages until we come to the same page (the previous developer getting
copied on it, he remembers the issue etc etc). It is much faster to just
try it :)
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Timur
