meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) (11/14/90)
On a DECstation 3100 running 4.0, I managed to get everything compiled.
I used -Olimit 2820 to get toke.c, eval.c, etc. to compile. I am running into
problems with the bigint.pl library when testing lib.big.
Without print statements, the test bombs with a core dump at test 51. If a
print statement is stuck in after
$try = "$f('" . join("','", @args) . "');";
print "$try\n";
the output reveals
&bcmp('-123','-123');
which looks pretty normal. Wandering over to ../lib/bigint.pl, I stick in
the following print statement after the &bnorm call.
local($x,$y) = (&'bnorm($_[0]),&'bnorm($_[1]));
print "$x\t$y\n";
I now get:
ok 49
&bcmp('+12','+123');
+12 +123
ok 50
&bcmp('-123','-123');
-123 -123
ok 51
and proceed smoothly through until I get to
ok 82
&badd('+1000','-1');
ok 9&badd('+10000','-1');
pid 8461 (perl) was killed on unaligned access, at pc 0x45968c
Bus error (core dumped)
Sticking in the print statement as above in badd results in the tests passing.
I thought that there might be a problem in bnorm, but I didn't see anything
obvious.
Thoughts and/or solutions appreciated.
/mde/