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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:28:23PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:56:51AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Since I have proof that neither alpha as such nor linux as such have
> > problems with T2 I'd glare at gcc first. Try dropping the optimization
> > level.
>
> Tried; removing optimization doesn't seem to have helped the regex tests, and
> bigfltm is still dumping core at test 351. More detail:
>
> t/op/pat.t:
> # ans='1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1'
> # expect='(bla()) ((l)u((e))) (l(e)e)'
> not ok 101
> # ans=' '
> # expect='(bla()) ((l)u((e))) (l(e)e)'
> not ok 102
I still suspect gcc. gcc has traditionally been really sucky with alphas,
and the gcc you used is close to two years old.
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