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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl 4.003 fails dbm test - HP 825, HP-UX 2.1
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.114136.11077@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 11:41:36 GMT
Sender: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Organization: Ford Motor Co. EFHD Ypsilanti Operations
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I'm trying to bring up perl r4pl3 on a 9000/825 under HP/UX 2.1 here at work.
(PLEASE don't ask why we're still on 2.1 instead of 7.0 - suffice to say
there are many non-technical reasons).

Everything compiles happily with +O1 and -Nw500 flags and every test
EXCEPT dbm passes without a hitch.

The dbm test gets through parts 0..7 then, when it gets to the following
statement, dumps core after giving an error message: "No memory"

-------------------included code fragment---------------------
if ($#keys == 31) {print "ok 7\n";} else {print "not ok 7\n";}
 ----------------------------does the above, blows up on the following:----
$h{'foo'} = '';
$h{''} = 'bar';
--------------------------end fragment-------------------------


I did NOT use Larry's malloc.

Perl 3.044 runs THIS dbm.t without problem.

Any ideas?
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Bill Meahan			|Product Design & Testing Section
Production Test Engineer	|Starter Motor Engineering
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