Re: [PATCH 5.5.660] Not OK: perl v5.5.660 on powerpc-machten4.1.4 (UNINSTALLED)

[Resend.  Should have gone to p5p, not perlbug.]

At 14:56 -0500 2000-02-29, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>Please try exchanging ovu_index and ovu_magic *without* the above patch.

Yup, that's it.  Thank you.  Here's the patch:

--- perl5.5.660/malloc.c~       Tue Feb 29 21:20:34 2000
+++ perl5.5.660/malloc.c        Tue Feb 29 21:24:09 2000
@@ -435,8 +435,8 @@ union       overhead {
         double  strut;                  /* alignment problems */
  #endif
         struct {
-               u_char  ovu_magic;      /* magic number */
                 u_char  ovu_index;      /* bucket # */
+               u_char  ovu_magic;      /* magic number */
  #ifdef RCHECK
                 u_short ovu_size;       /* actual block size */
                 u_int   ovu_rmagic;     /* range magic number */

End of patch

Let's hope that does not give systems with real sbrk() indigestion.

MachTen still fails pragma/warning #235 as before.  Next on my list.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop

• Re: [PATCH 5.5.660] Not OK: perl v5.5.660 on powerpc-machten4.1.4 (UNINSTALLED) by Dominic Dunlop