Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!ronald
From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Xenix 386 Out of memory
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.202510.23438@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 30 Nov 90 20:25:10 GMT
References: <270@carssdf.UUCP>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson) writes:

> Has ANYONE got perl pl41 totally working on Xenix 2.3.x ?

Totally ?  What's that ?  But yeah, I use PL41 on Xenix 2.3.x

> the tests (that is easy)

Yup

> and able to use perldb debugger without huge
> requests to malloc from afake, like 100meg or more.

Never did learn the debugger, but it *seems* to work ...

> I have the Bernie Macchiusi fix in, and it did help.

What's that ?

> If so, how did you compile, did you use the same -O options on all the 
> modules?  Did you put in any -DMSC.. -DJUMPCLOBBER CRIPPLED etc...?

I used gcc -O -fpcc-struct-return.  Anyone who uses MSC's gotta be
completely out of their minds unless they 1) need MS-DOG compatibility
or 2) are masochists or 3) are using Xenix-86 or Xenix-286.

Oh, and I used the perl-supplied malloc.

Actually, now that ndbm.c is on uunet, I think maybe I'll use that and
forget the -fpcc-struct-return.  Perl would be so much more useful with
ndbm -- Larry, why not just include it in the distribution (optional for
those who *need* dbm binary data compatibility)?  Then we can all use
ndbm features and *expect* our perl scripts to be portable :-)

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