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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-07-15 22:38:31 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-07-15 22:38:31 +0000
commitb76d19926c51bba1d912eeaebd55ed345346164d (patch)
tree5caf3b12a8159b07eea56d57f1207f7a0d852d49 /pod/perldelta.pod
parent497333196fe603867ff029e026d5c06aa7fee43d (diff)
downloadperl-b76d19926c51bba1d912eeaebd55ed345346164d.tar.gz
IRIX -O2 trick (needs verification from John P. Linderman)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17563
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@@ -3398,12 +3398,17 @@ case-insensitively. Apparently this problem has been fixed in
the latest FreeBSD releases.
( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=34308 )
-=head2 IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t
+=head2 IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t or Digest::MD5
-IRIX with MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m compiler may fail the said List::Util test
-by dumping core. This seems to be a compiler error since if compiled
-with gcc no core dump ensues, and no failures on the said test on any
-other platform.
+IRIX with MIPSpro 7.3.1.2m or 7.3.1.3m compiler may fail the List::Util
+test ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t by dumping core. This seems to be
+a compiler error since if compiled with gcc no core dump ensues, and
+no failures have been seen on the said test on any other platform.
+
+Similarly, building the Digest::MD5 extension has been
+known to fail with "*** Termination code 139 (bu21)".
+
+The cure is to drop optimization level (Configure -Doptimize=-O2).
=head2 HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured