Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!geac!alias!chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu From: chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu (C. Harald Koch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl Patchlevel 15 on VAX 5400 Message-ID: <802@alias.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 90 18:48:28 GMT References: <1990Mar16.044319.14338@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: news@alias.UUCP Reply-To: chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu (C. Harald Koch) Organization: Alias Research Inc., Toronto Canada Lines: 17 In article <1990Mar16.044319.14338@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> thetroll@rata.vuw.ac.nz (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.substr; test 40. > >Perl 3.0 patchlevel 8 did not have this problem (it had other problems >instead). It does the same thing on the SGI 4D series machines, which also use MIPS processors. I haven't had time to look into it at all; I just reverted to patchlevel 8 (which works here). -- C. Harald Koch Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada chk%alias@csri.utoronto.ca chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu chk@chk.mef.org If awk is the Swiss Army knife of UNIX, then Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw! -Author Unknown; related by (Dave Platt)