[perl #26992] perl 5.8.3, PERL_FLEXIBLE_EXCEPTIONS, and Exception:Cxx

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This is a bug report for perl from tjk@ams.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.3.


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I successfully compiled perl 5.8.3 without using

  -DPERL_FLEXIBLE_EXCEPTIONS.

However, Exceptions:Cxx will not compile with this perl because the
symbol

  PL_protect

is not defined in the perl executable.

If I compile with

  -DPERL_FLEXIBLE_EXCEPTIONS

then necessary symbol is there for building Exceptions:Cxx, but then
"make test" fails with a oprestart panic in t/op/sort.t.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.3:

Configured by tjk at Fri Feb 20 09:53:00 EST 2004.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos thor 5.8 generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-250 solaris '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc', ccflags ='-mt -misalign -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUGGING -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-g',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -DDEBUGGING'
    ccversion='Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc', ldflags =' '
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.3:
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/5.8.3/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/5.8.3
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /work/ptg/programming/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.3:
    HOME=/usr/users/prg/tjk
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/users/prg/tjk/cvs/bin:/usr/users/prg/tjk/aladdin/bin:/ams/texmf/bin:/work/ptg/graphics/bin:/usr/local/stow/distiller-5.0/Distiller:/ams/pub/pscheck/tools:/work/ptg/fonts/bin:/work/ptg/tools/bin:/work/ptg/print-tools/bin:/work/ptg/perl-scripts:/work/ptg/programming/bin:/work/ptg/stix/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin/gnu:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/ams/texmf/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/local/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/local/omnimark:/work/ptg/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh

• [perl #26992] perl 5.8.3, PERL_FLEXIBLE_EXCEPTIONS, and Exception:Cxx by Tom Kacvinsky