Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: GCC and Perl v28 Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 21:18:20 GMT References: Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 24 In-reply-to: urlichs@smurf.sub.org's message of 24 Aug 90 15:55:32 GMT In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: | Compiling Perl 3.0.28, under A/UX 2.0, with gcc 1.37.91, fails for doio.c. | I don't yet know what happens but "make test" shows one error (op.read doesn't | read anything) and two serious warnings (comp.multiline: failure to close | properly). | | I'm going to try and find out where gcc throws up (it's not optimization); | anyone out there know enough gcc internals to be of any help? | (Having a mc68k-code-producing gcc would probably help.) Perl @ patch level 28 (also patch level 18) works just great with GCC 1.37.92 on the MIPS-based DECstation with all optimization levels (-O -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce). So it's either the machine dependent portion of GCC or A/UX. I suspect you won't get much help from the FSF crowd, since Apple's Look & Feel suit...... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?