Is this a bug in GNU diff?

[Ian Cottam]

diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Hi,

Please note attached files.
I think the output from

diff -w -B tt ttt

should be empty. That is, the -B ignores blank lines and the -w ignores 
whitespace differences within a line.

On my Mac (OS X 10.5.3), I get output from diff (below)


diff -w -B tt ttt
5a6,17
> c                            d
> e f
>     g h
>
>
>
> x
>
>
>
>
>
11,14d22
< c                   d
< ef
< g  h
< x






Thanks
-Ian





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