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From: mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl 3.0 PL27 Dumps Core On SparcStations
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Date: 14 Aug 90 22:53:53 GMT
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Reply-To: mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring)
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When perl is compiled with cc and -DDEBUGGING, it dumps core on a
SparcStation when you invoke perl with -D14 on a script with a pack or
unpack operation.  The problem is that Sun's 'cc' #defines sparc, and
the source code is looking for #ifdef sun4 to add the extra stack
required for the SPARC.  The fix is simple:

	Add -Dsun4 to your 'cc' flags when you run Configure.

Patch #28--Here we come!!


Ed Mooring (mooring@antares.tymnet.com 408-922-7504)