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From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Sun-3 and pl44
Message-ID: <585@sunny.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:35:02 GMT
Reply-To: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Organization: UCDMC Clinical Engineering, Sacto., CA
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FYI, op.dbm has an infinite while loop when patch
level 44 is compiled with gcc (1.37.1) on a Sun-3 (4.0.3).
Apparently, reading from an empty ndbm file returns nulls
(as opposed to undefs or EOF).

	...
	print (dbmopen(h,'Op.dbmx',0640) ? "ok 1\n" : "not ok 1\n");
	...
	while (($key,$value) = each(h)) {
	    $i++;
	}
	rint (!$i ? "ok 3\n" : "not ok 3\n");

Sorry, haven't looked into it yet.  Anybody else?  It may have always
been broken, since op.dbm was just added in this release (I think).

Also ... cc (Sun's) barfs if you try any kind of optimization.
Sometimes because the compile is too big (eval.c), sometimes because
/lib/iropt grows out of its allotted space.  I guess more stack and/or
swap (though I've got 40MB) may be indicated.

I'll see what I can find.

-- 
Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering
Universiy of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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