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From: ktl@wag240.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim)
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Subject: Re: Perl Patchlevel 15 on VAX 5400
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Date: 16 Mar 90 12:27:45 GMT
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In article <1990Mar16.044319.14338@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>,
thetroll@rata (The Troll) writes:
>I have successfully managed to build Perl 3.0 Patchlevel 15 on a VAX 5400
>(a rebadged MIPS box). However it fails the following tests if the
>compiler flag -O is used: op.eval; test 7, op.[subst]; test 40. 

This appears to be a generic MIPS problem, as it also occurs on our
SGI Iris 4D/240.  I was hoping patch 15 would fix it, but it's still
there.  On our box, the string returned by the eval in test 7 of
op.eval is getting stepped on somehow; compiling doio.c, eval.c, and
str.c without optimization (so dbx does something useful) doesn't help
the problem.

op.subst (not op.substr) test 40 reports "Out of memory!", and our
SYSLOG claims that perl wants 65536 4K pages of VM.  I haven't tried
to track that one down yet.

Patchlevel 12 works beautifully on this machine.

Fixed in patch 16?

-- 
Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wagvax.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)
Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw [of Unix programming]. -- Dave Platt's friend