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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PL40 vs. AT&T machines
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.183830.18383@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:38:30 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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As of PL40 the AT&T 3B2 compiler won't handle eval.c:
"eval.c", line 2374: compiler error: switch table overflow

As far as I can tell there is no way (without compiler source) to
increase the size of the switch table. (I was never able to
compile TeX on the 3b2 either...).

On the 386 (AT&T unix SysVr3.2) lib.big gives a memory fault.  Interestingly,
but probably unrelated to perl, the memory fault causes an immediate core
dump when running on a local disk, but hangs forever if the current
directory is on another machine via RFS.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us