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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl-4.003 fails op/dbm.t on SPARC w/gcc
Message-ID: <1991May15.172208.15856@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 May 91 17:22:08 GMT
References: <13613@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <13613@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> shein@robotics.berkeley.edu (Soren Hein) writes:
: 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.

Either make this work by using -UHAS_VOLATILE, or reconfigure the whole thing
with cc.  I don't think that version of gcc can be made to compile hash.c
correctly.

Larry