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Manual matching does not trigger diff

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java

Research direction

Reproduce the issue in BinDiff 6 on Windows 10 by unmatching blocks, matching them again, and checking whether all text is marked different. Compare the result with the attached GIF and image; done means the text is diffed properly after manual matching.

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Description

enhancement

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. Unmatch blocks.
  2. Match blocks.
  3. Observe that all text is different. See gif and image.

What is the expected behavior?
Text is diffed properly.

What went wrong?
Text is marked as different.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
BinDiff 6, Win10.

177788191__32168413__191454

177788191__32168414__191454

Ported from b/177788191

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