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From: bush@prg.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
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Subject: perl 4.0 problems (Sun3/50 SunOS4.1)
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Date: 24 Mar 91 03:24:41 GMT
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I have perl4.0 running on Sun4s running SunOS4.1 and SunOS4.1.1 ok.  I tried
our Sun3/50 workstations (running SunOS4.1) and some of the tests failed.
The errors seemed to be due to information being overwritten by the parser
(mainly whilst doing compile time optimisations as far as I could tell).

I have sent a fuller report to Larry to see what he thinks but I thought I'd
ask the perl community if anyone else has had problems with this setup?  If
you did and fixed them I'd be *very* pleased to know how..

Mark

ps.  FYI.  Anyone following the `A-W not got copies the The Book' saga...
     A-W in the UK have got The Book, though they only had 4 copies left
     last week when I got mine! 8*)  Don't know how I managed without it!