henkp@cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) (03/25/91)
On HP9000/300 HP/UX 7.05, Perl 4.0 compiles smoothly and passes all tests. However, I get segmentation faults and bus-errors with some applications. Now and than the problems go away if I add a simple dummy asssignment or add a commentline. I am still searching for a simple example. Relevant compiler settings : optimize='+O1' ccflags='-Wc,-Nw500' libs='-lnet -lndir -lndbm -lmalloc -lm -lBSD' === HenkP === -- Henk P. Penning, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University. Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-534106 e-mail : henkp@cs.ruu.nl (uucp to hp4nl!ruuinf!henkp)
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (03/26/91)
In article <1991Mar25.155713.17020@cs.ruu.nl> henkp@cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) writes: > On HP9000/300 HP/UX 7.05, Perl 4.0 compiles smoothly and passes all tests. > However, I get segmentation faults and bus-errors with some applications. > Now and than the problems go away if I add a simple dummy asssignment > or add a commentline. I am still searching for a simple example. I've received three reports that the HP9000/300 optimizer produces incorrect results for my yabbawhap package. At this point I wouldn't blame any moderately complex application for failing under that optimizer. (Apparently the HP9000/800 optimizer doesn't have the same problems, at least with yabbawhap.) Complain to HP. ---Dan
okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) (03/28/91)
henkp@cs.ruu.nl (Henk P. Penning) asks: > On HP9000/300 HP/UX 7.05... > Relevant compiler settings : > optimize='+O1' > ccflags='-Wc,-Nw500' > libs='-lnet -lndir -lndbm -lmalloc -lm -lBSD' Beware! Using -lBSD when Configure thinks an HP-UX system is SysV based is asking for trouble, especially in the signal handling area. I'd recommend taking -lBSD out of the libs line. What is alignbytes in your config.sh? Configure runs a program that says 2, but the answer should be 4. (Doubles can align on 2 bytes inside structures, but must be 4 for normal use). See the HP-UX Portability Guidelines for more details. Also, from personal experience, using perl's malloc seems to prevent some malloc/free errors. Finally, -lnet and -lndir are empty, and thus not needed. Hope this helps. -- \ oo The New Number Who, \____|\mm Jeff Okamoto //_//\ \_\ HP Corporate Computing & Services /K-9/ \/_/ okamoto@ranma.corp.hp.com /___/_____\ ----------- (415) 857-6236