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Re: [perl #24091] Not OK: perl v5.8.1 on sgi6-irix-ld 6.5

From:
John P. Linderman
Date:
October 5, 2003 08:46
Subject:
Re: [perl #24091] Not OK: perl v5.8.1 on sgi6-irix-ld 6.5
Message ID:
200310051544.LAA80918@raptor.research.att.com
Allen Smith guessed:

> IP27? R10000 chip, I'm guessing?

Right on both counts.

Processor 0: 250 MHZ IP27
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.4

> -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG but not -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG_LESS1?
> Interesting. I've seen this here also with an R5000 machine (non-64-bit),
> but hadn't had time to check things out further. I've done some
> rearrangements on the local smoketest configuration files and will see what
> happens

I tried turning off -DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG and all that did was
generate an *additional* failure from sprintf.  Didn't try
-DHAS_LDBL_SPRINTF_BUG_LESS1, perhaps I'll give that a shot.




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