Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:1925 comp.unix.ultrix:4122 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: perl on dec 5000, ultrix 4.0: $& and recursive evals fail Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 20:55:00 GMT References: <5960@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 31 In-reply-to: tmaeno@cc.titech.ac.jp's message of 30 Jul 90 11:36:53 GMT In article <5960@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> tmaeno@cc.titech.ac.jp (Toshinori Maeno) writes: | In emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: | | >In article thewalt@canuck.ce.berkeley.edu (C. Thewalt) writes: | | > Ed said: perl on dec 5000, ultrix 4.0. | > fails tests 40-42 in op.s, all having to do with $&. | > fails tests 8 and 9 in op.eval, dealing with recursive evals. | | > Chris said: I compiled everything without -O and all tests pass. | | > Ed said: thanks Chris and Michael Stryker (strkyer@phyc.ucsf.edu), | > compiling with -g (not -O) and -DCRIPPLED_CC and it passes all | > tests. | We had the same problem on our MIPS3240 and Sony RISC NEWS. | Mr. Ohta found that Mips C compiler generates buggy code for perly.c | when we compiled with -O. | Maeno Toshinori If you saved the recent GNU CC patches that I sent to the gnu CC bug list, the compiler produced will compile perl with normal and -O2 optimizations. Note that the patches I submitted do not allow for full debugging, since RMS requested that I delay the debug patches until GCC revision 2.00. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?