wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (04/26/91)
I'm trying to bring up perl r4pl3 on a 9000/825 under HP/UX 2.1 here at work.
(PLEASE don't ask why we're still on 2.1 instead of 7.0 - suffice to say
there are many non-technical reasons).
Everything compiles happily with +O1 and -Nw500 flags and every test
EXCEPT dbm passes without a hitch.
The dbm test gets through parts 0..7 then, when it gets to the following
statement, dumps core after giving an error message: "No memory"
-------------------included code fragment---------------------
if ($#keys == 31) {print "ok 7\n";} else {print "not ok 7\n";}
----------------------------does the above, blows up on the following:----
$h{'foo'} = '';
$h{''} = 'bar';
--------------------------end fragment-------------------------
I did NOT use Larry's malloc.
Perl 3.044 runs THIS dbm.t without problem.
Any ideas?
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Bill Meahan |Product Design & Testing Section
Production Test Engineer |Starter Motor Engineering
wwm@pmsmam | +1 313 484 9320rmccask@seas.gwu.edu (Randy McCaskill) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr26.114136.11077@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) writes: >I'm trying to bring up perl r4pl3 on a 9000/825 under HP/UX 2.1 here at work. >(PLEASE don't ask why we're still on 2.1 instead of 7.0 - suffice to say >there are many non-technical reasons). > >The dbm test gets through parts 0..7 then, when it gets to the following >statement, dumps core after giving an error message: "No memory" > >I did NOT use Larry's malloc. I had the same problem so I compiled it using Larry's malloc. It passed the dbm test this way. It didn't really fix the problem, only avoided it. If anyone knows of a better way, please post it. -------- Randy McCaskill Computer Science major rmccask@seas.gwu.edu George Washington University
wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (04/27/91)
Problem solved. (Thanks to the gentleman from Milwaukee who called and left a message on my answering machine - sorry I missed your name). It turns out that Configure wants to include -lmalloc alnog with -lndbm among the optional libraries. The two are incompatible. HP supplies two DIFFERENT mallocs - the optional one in libmalloc.a. Solution: either edit out the -lmalloc in the Makefile or use Larry's. Larry's works fine. -- Bill Meahan |Product Design & Testing Section Production Test Engineer |Starter Motor Engineering wwm@pmsmam | +1 313 484 9320