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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl PL 28 fails op.dbm on SparcStation 1
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.065347.29140@sics.se>
Date: 17 Aug 90 06:53:47 GMT
References: <1990Aug17.031514.14790@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In-Reply-To: keith@curry.uchicago.edu's message of 17 Aug 90 03:15:14 GMT

>>>>> In article <1990Aug17.031514.14790@midway.uchicago.edu>, keith@curry.uchicago.edu (Keith Waclena) writes:

keith> Well, I've been waiting to see if anybody else was going to report
keith> this, but it looks like I'm going to be the first.

keith> Perl at PL 27 and also at PL 28 both fail op.dbm, dumping core in a
keith> big way.  Here is a trivial script that illustrates the problem:

It works for me. Both PL27 and PL28 passed op.dbm. The only change I made was
undef VFORK (I do not know if that is needed, any more. It helped in earlier
versions, I have not tried PL28 or PL27 with VFORK defined on the Sparc).
I use gcc and we are running SunOS 4.0.3.

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