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From: yearke@planck.uucp (Dave Yearke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re:  Perl on a 3b2
Summary: Turn off the optimizer
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.214328.1192@planck.uucp>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:43:28 GMT
References: <1795@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: yearke@planck.UUCP (Dave Yearke)
Organization: Calspan Advanced Technology Center
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In article <1795@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL writes:
>|> I am trying to port perl3/patch 6 to an AT&T 3b2 running SysVr3 with
>|> Berkeley sockets.  I've produced an executable, but it fails on a number
>|> of basic tests.

I have found that, a lot of the time, turning off the optimizer will fix
problems with software not running properly on a 3B2.  This has been true
of every release of perl that I have compiled on that machine.  Recompile
without -O and see what happens.

Hope this helps.

-- 
                Dave Yearke, Calspan Advanced Technology Center
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