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From: cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: LARRY WALL'S "PERL" ON A/UX
Message-ID: <1359@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 19:51:02 GMT
References: <1773@randvax.UUCP>
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From article <1773@randvax.UUCP>, by clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark):
> I've been trying unsuccessfully to get Larry Wall's "perl" program
> to run on A/UX (I need it to run his Configure generator).
> 
> Perl 2.0 compiles without incident.  However, when you run it on a
> script--ANY script--it crashes with a Memory Fault error (-117) and
> a core dump.  Changing various compile flags and/or kernel parameters
> doesn't help, nor does using the "BIG" compiler option.  (In fact,
> perl compiled under the -B /usr/lib/big/ option *REALLY* crashes
> the machine;  it panics with an interrupt stack overflow!)
> Btw, the machine is a 8-meg Mac II running nfs & yp;  vanilla, generally.

What patch level are you at?  I remember some of the earlier patch
levels had some big problems, but it seems O.K. to me now at level 15.
I haven't used it much, but it does pass all but one of the tests in
the test suite.  I'm running with 5 Meg, nfs, and some non-standard
modules, so I don't think memory is a problem.  If any one is
interested, I have the sources patched at level 15 and all orignal
sources and patches, including some scripts I wrote to apply the
patches and check them into SCCS.

-- 

Charles.
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