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This file describes the more significant of the changes
made by Silicon Graphics, during its port of DIFF 1.15.
The file "Changes.gnu-sgi.diff.out" contains a diff
(using -uw options) output between the original source
and the final SGI port, for each *.c and *.h file.
As part of the port, SGI:
1) optimized performance in the case that the files
being diff'd don't fit comfortably in main memory.
In this large file case, if no GNU specific options
are specified, and if /usr/bin/odiff is present,
then odiff is automatically invoked, since it is
much faster on huge files. This port of GNU diff
is typically faster on files that fit in main memory,
thanks in part to its use of mmap, and to a quite
different algorithm optimized for this case.
2) optimized performance in the case that the two
files being diff'd are identical. Consequently
diff of two identical files is actually quite
a bit faster than "cmp" of the same two files.
3) Dropped support for GNU's +longoptions, in part
since they are changing the syntax to --longoption
in future GNU diff releases, and it didn't make
sense to support the +longoption form for just
this single release from SGI.
4) added the local SGI "diff -x" option, for excluding
subtrees on a recursive diff.
5) determine if files are binary (which by default
can result in the message: Binary files %s and %s differ)
by checking for NUL bytes in the first BUFSIZ (8k)
bytes. This NUL check is consistent with SVR4
and with previous versions of diff on SGI systems.
The GNU source for diff 1.15 checked instead
for characters that were not in the ISO 8859 set.
Silicon Graphics
Dec 29, 1992