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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Perl 2.0 problem
Summary: identified: core dumps with -O
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Date: 7 Feb 89 16:24:37 GMT
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In article <4349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <744@attdso.att.com> tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) writes:
>: Am I missing some patches?  We just downloaded this from the archives
>: recently, so I wouldn't be suprised.
>
>There are 18 patches for 2.0 perl.

I retrieved all the patches from your server, and applied them in turn.
However, I still got the core dump when running base.lex.  After trying
various things, I decided to try compiling again with -g and running under
sdb.  Low and behold, this fixed the problem.  More specifically, removing
the -O for debugging solved the problem.

In other words, be cautious with the optimizer when compiling perl on a
3B2/600 running System V 3.1.1.  It looks like there are problems.  You
might want to consider asking the installer in Configure if (s)he wants
to use the optimizer or not.

>(By the way, I'm posting this from the terminal room at USENIX.  Fun!)

Gee, some guys get all the excitement. :-)

>Larry Wall

	tim
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