Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!njin!princeton!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!tauxersvilli!tauxersvilli!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: perl 3.0 patch #12 Message-ID: <1990Mar7.232801.9438@alphalpha.com> Date: 7 Mar 90 23:28:01 GMT References: <7241@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <15222@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1990Mar5.200203.25581@trigraph.uucp> <15233@bfmny0.UU.NET> Organization: Alphalpha Software, Inc. Lines: 20 In article <15233@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >In article <1990Mar5.200203.25581@trigraph.uucp> "John J. Chew" writes: >>Problems encountered while upgrading from patch 8 to patch 12 of >>Perl 3.0 under A/UX 1.1 using cc: >> >>- The optimizer warns that some optimizations are lost due to table >> overflow when compiling eval.c and toke.c. The generated code appears >> to be correct even if presumably suboptimal :-). Ah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who had problems with that. The Apollo compiler is quite dogged about never letting a possible optimization escape its grasp. No giving up for it! Instead it simply took an hour to compile the file! -kee -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 |