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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.sys.hp
Subject: perl 3.0 patch level 14 fails on HP/UX 7.0
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Date: 13 Mar 90 15:31:47 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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I recompiled perl 3.0 patch level 14 on our newly installed HP/UX version
7.0 and several tests failed. We changed to version 7.0 last weekend. The
previous version of perl (patch level 12) had been compiled on HP/UX 6.5
and continues to work on 7.0. I have not tried to compile perl3pl12 on
HP/UX 7.0.

The following tests give problems:

comp.cpp:	Out of memory! after ok 2
comp.script:	Hangs after ok 1
cmd.while:	Out of memory! after ok 19
io.fs:		Segmentation fault
io.inplace:	Segmentation fault
op.mkdir:	Hangs
op.stat:	Hangs after ok 4

When I trace the thing with adb, it seems that perl is reading from a file
on a pipe (opened by a ``). I get: str_gets, `calls' getc, which calls
__filbuf, which calls __findbuf, which calls malloc. The malloc never
returns, so there is apparently a problem.

The problem seems to be the malloc, because it works if I use the malloc
that comes with perl.
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