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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl3.0/6 on 3B2--HELP!
Summary: Try compiling without -O
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Date: 13 Dec 89 22:14:30 GMT
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I had lots of trouble with Perl3.0/6 on a 3b2 as well; it would core
dump on all but trivial test programs.  I compiled with debugging on,
and found it to be calling some of the memory allocation stuff with bogus
arguments.

Everything worked fine after I recompiled with the optimizer off; I'm
planning to stick with the un-optimized version.

We have berkeley sockets, but I turned off the network support early on
while looking for the problem.  Sometime I'll re-enable it and try again.