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From: leo@aai.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: a debugger problem...
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.201428.5003@aai.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 20:14:28 GMT
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Organization: Amerinex Artificial Intelligence
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leo@aai.com writes:
>I haven't had a chance to pin it down more than that, and I don't know if
>I'll have time to.  Since Larry also has a Masscomp, we may be able to make
>some guesses by comparing configurations.  What I CAN tell you is that I
>rebuilt perl using gcc and the problem disappeared.

Further testing reveals that it's an optimizer problem, but not in either
of the two modules (doargs.c, str.c) that Bill Mann suggested as most
likely.

I don't have any more time to play with it.  GCC compiles it properly
optimized and the Masscomp compiler gets it right if not optimized.
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