Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!granite.pa.dec.com!mellon From: mellon@fenris.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl Patchlevel 15 on VAX 5400 Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 90 02:07:58 GMT References: <1990Mar16.044319.14338@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 12 In-reply-to: thetroll@rata.vuw.ac.nz's message of 16 Mar 90 04:43:19 GMT >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. Excuuse me? The DECstation 5400 (not VAX 5400) is not a rebadged mips box. Have you ever heard of a Mips box with a Q-bus in it? Have you ever heard of a little-endian Mips Box? It does have a Mips R3000 chip in it, of course, but it's a completely different product. Sorry to interject this here, but I have trouble ignoring misinformation. _MelloN_