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From: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: problem with "out of memory" in perl debugger
Keywords: perl, debugger, bug, out of memory
Message-ID: <278@carssdf.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 01:28:41 GMT
References: <40012@genrad.UUCP>
Organization: C.A.R.S.,Middlesex,NJ
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In article <40012@genrad.UUCP>, rep@genrad.com (Pete Peterson) writes:
> On the vax, perl -d ANYTHING gives segmentation fault core dump.
> Has anybody seen and fixed this problem?

A problem on SCO Xenix similar to this was corrected by changing the
compile options to include -Zp2,  That means pack all structures on
short word (2 byte) boundaries.  The ARG structure has a pointer
followed by three shorts and this seems to be related to the problem.
When the problem hits, "afake" asks for 100 + M Byte of memory.

On the Xenix System, that change also requires you to fix the "stat.h"
include module, or just accept a couple of errors from the make test,
of io.fs and op.stat.   A #pragma pack(4) and ...pack() do
the trick.

John Watson   ...!rutgers!carssdf!usenet