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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl on Motorola M88k's
Message-ID: <1314@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 9 Feb 91 04:18:41 GMT
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I installed Perl (PL18 - stable but old) onto a Motorola 8864 88000 RISC
box.  Greenhills C.  It hangs when doing some moderately simple things.
Such as:
	$list = `ls directory`;
	@L = split($list);
	print $L[0];

L[0], as printed, isn't a file name in the directory, and perl
sits chewing cpu.  It does this both with and without -O.  With
Perl's malloc it simply dumps core.

It is an quite an old patch level, what I'm really asking is
for those people using Perl on 88k's, especially heavy use, to
drop me a line letting me know what patch level you're at, what
problems you've encountered, and if you had to do anything special
to get it to work.

Thanks