Re: sudden features

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:03:27PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> To verify it, I tried it under Solaris 5.5.1 (because this is your platform) with a (5.00503) perl built for both treading and
> debugging. It does not produce a core dump, but dies with an "Bus error" message as well.
> 
> Could it be the developer version behaves different?

I didn't have any problems with 5.5.3 either.  Maybe you are getting
hosed by threads.

[joshua@eq1062] % perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos eqproptrade1.srv.na.deuba.com 5.5.1 generic_103640-24 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-2 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /data/3trade/u01/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jul 30 1999 09:49:55
  @INC:
    /data/3trade/u01/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
    /data/3trade/u01/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /data/3trade/u01/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris

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