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From: msa@rwing.UUCP (Mark Anacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Possible HP-UX compiler optimizer bug (found while making Perl)
Summary: same thing here
Message-ID: <969@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 22:17:02 GMT
References: <4413@fmeed1.UUCP>
Organization: Very Little Organization, Seattle WA
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In article <4413@fmeed1.UUCP>, wehr@fmeed1.UUCP (Bruce Wehr) writes:
> We just got Perl 3.0 from c.s.u.  Making it on our HP 9000/370 running
> HP-UX 6.5 with the optimizer caused the compiler to hang on these files:
> eval.c (&& teval.c), toke.c (&& ttoke.c), x2p/walk.c.  These files had
> to be manually compiled without the optimizer (we told Configure to use
> -O).
  
> Has anyone else experienced this, or should I start looking for
> something I did wrong?  Any help would be appreciated.

Yup, did the same thing to me, with the same workaround.  Only on our
system, x2p/walk.c did compile (at least I think it did... :). 

I guess some things were not meant to optimize :)...
 


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