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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: DBM Problems in PL28 (Was Re: Tom Christiansen's man program ...)
Keywords: perl pl28 man xenix
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.124151.19657@ping.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 90 12:41:51 GMT
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In article <26E5495D.7759@ics.uci.edu> nagel@wintermute.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
>$dbm00{some_key} fails for whatever (valid) key is used.  I don't
>think it is a bug in man, but a bug in dbm access under pl28.

That would go along with a problem I am experiencing in PL28 on SCO UNIX.
In order to get PERL to compile and begin the tests without core dumping
I was forced to use the 'rcc' compiler (the standard distribution AT&T
compiler, as opposed to 'cc' which is the Microsoft C compiler).  Once
I did that, I then attempted to test PL28 on the system.  It failed io.dup
test 2, and io.pipe test 6, and when it attempted to do op.dbm, it just
hung.  It is hanging on the loop:
	while (($key,$value) = each(h)) {
		$i++;
	}
The dbm file does not exist, therefore this program just created it with
the dbmopen() function.  It is expecting that loop to exit the first time,
but what really happens is it just hangs in that loop incrementing $i.
This test did pass PL18.  In fact, PL18 works just fine on this system,
even using the MicroSoft C compiler.  I am curious as to why I have had
to go through all these hoops.  (When using 'cc', it attempts to do test
base.if, and segmentation fault/core dumps.)

Is anyone else running SCO UNIX?  Have you had any problems getting PERL PL28
to (1) compile, (2) pass the tests, (3) just plain work?

It does look like a bug in PL28 with the dbm, but it could just be a problem
with the way I have things set up.  I have no idea.

		-- Gordon.


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