From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 13:44:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7D437B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blarf.homeip.net (adsl-209-204-188-56.sonic.net [209.204.188.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B6E43EAC for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:44:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sonicmail@blarf.homeip.net) Received: by blarf.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85B1017AB; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:44:07 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda To: Daniel Rock , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 broken in current Message-ID: <20021014204407.GA13015@blarf.homeip.net> References: <3DAB2B21.5050205@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DAB2B21.5050205@t-online.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:37:53PM +0200, Daniel Rock wrote: > If I compile it with optimization enabled "make test" fails at t/op/pat, > test 640. Only with no optimization at all this test succeeded. I tried > the following options So turn off the optimizations? gcc's code optimizations are broken, and should be avoided. If you want to break perl 5.6 you can do so with -O3 -march=pentiumpro (somehow I suspect -O2 would have the same effect). Besides, that just goes to show, it's not perl that's broken.. rather it's the compiler. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message