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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl 4.003 fails dbm test - HP 825, HP-UX 2.1
Keywords: Perl 4.003, HPUX, dbm test
Message-ID: <=A_+TWB@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 27 Apr 91 13:18:52 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.114136.11077@pmsmam.uucp> <3127@sparko.gwu.edu>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.lang.perl, article <3127@sparko.gwu.edu>,
  rmccask@seas.gwu.edu (Randy McCaskill) writes:
< 
< I had the same problem so I compiled it using Larry's malloc.  It
< passed the dbm test this way.  It didn't really fix the problem, only
< avoided it.  If anyone knows of a better way, please post it.
< 
The problem is that some mallocs return NULL when you allocate a zero-byte
memory block. While that seems to be legal behavior, some dbm libraries can't
cope with this.

I don't have a good fix either. (However, the Perl malloc is faster anyway,
at least on my machine.)

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