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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl 4.0 on HP 9000/300 HP/UX
Message-ID: <20559:Mar2521:00:4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 21:00:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.155713.17020@cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: IR
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In article <1991Mar25.155713.17020@cs.ruu.nl> henkp@cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) writes:
> On HP9000/300 HP/UX 7.05, Perl 4.0 compiles smoothly and passes all tests.
> However, I get segmentation faults and bus-errors with some applications.
> Now and than the problems go away if I add a simple dummy asssignment
> or add a commentline. I am still searching for a simple example.

I've received three reports that the HP9000/300 optimizer produces
incorrect results for my yabbawhap package. At this point I wouldn't
blame any moderately complex application for failing under that
optimizer. (Apparently the HP9000/800 optimizer doesn't have the same
problems, at least with yabbawhap.)

Complain to HP.

---Dan