[comp.sys.m88k] Perl 4.0 on 88k platform?

ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) (03/22/91)

Kudos to Larry on the new version!

One small glitch,  the Perl4.beta tarset I got from devvax compiled and
passed the tests (except for lib/big) and I was happy and ready to start
training all the folks to use perl.  (This is on the Opus PM428 with G4+
version software - OCS/BCS compatible - Motorola 88100 cpu for those not
familiar with Opus.)

Then, here is the OFFICIAL 4.0 release.
Go to devvax, fetch all the kits and start at the top.

Oops - now op/index, op/substr and lib/big all fail!
op/index and op/substr fail at test 0.

Comparing the codes doesn't show anything that is grossly different in
the treatment of index/strchr (at first pass) so I haven't the foggiest
idea of where to look next.

Suggestions? comments?
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