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From: shein@robotics.berkeley.edu (Soren Hein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl-4.003 fails op/dbm.t on SPARC w/gcc
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Date: 14 May 91 18:43:58 GMT
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Reply-To: shein@robotics.berkeley.edu (Soren Hein)
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Problem:
perl-4.003 (from uunet.uu.net) fails op/dbm.t on test 0:
     1..12
     ok 1
     ok 2
     Segmentation fault


System info:
*  % cat /etc/motd
   SunOS Release 4.1 (GENERIC_SMALL) #1: Wed Mar 7 10:54:19 PST 1990
   % arch
   sun4
   % gcc -v
   gcc version 1.37.1


Doesn't work:
*  Compiling only hash.c with cc, as suggested by jbw@bigbird.bu.edu on
   April 16. Apparently, my cc does not know about volatile.


Configure choices:
*  No system defaults (such as SunOS x.xx) used.
*  Std. /usr/include files.
*  gcc compiler with -O.
*  No add. cc flags, except for
     -fpcc-struct-return -I/usr/include/sun
   suggested by Configure.
*  No add. ld flags.
*  No add. libraries, except for 
     -ldbm -lm -lposix
   suggested by Configure.
*  Shared C library /usr/lib/libc.so.1.5.
*  Not using perl's malloc() since 
     void
     free(cp)
	char *cp;
   in malloc.c conflicts with 
     extern char *   malloc(/* size_t size */);
   in /usr/include/stdlib.h.
*  Except for locations of binaries, man pages and libraries, choose
   the defaults offered by Configure.


/Soren, shein@robotics.berkeley.edu
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