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Article #174Re: Sun4os4 /bin/sh dumps core.
From: Tor Lillqvist
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 09:42
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 09:42
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Various people write about the perl test suite failing with a memory fault and dumped core on Sun 4 machines, a few even thinking that it is /bin/sh that dumps core. The problem with perl 3.0 on SPARC machines probably lies in malloc.c, where the overhead union needs more strict alignment. Adding a double field in the union takes care of that. At least this was the case on the HP9000 Series 800 (HP-PA, aka Spectrum), which also is a strict-alignment RISC machine. -- Tor Lillqvist Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK) tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!hemuli.atk.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Sun4os4 /bin/sh dumps core. Message-ID: <4095@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi> Date: 17 Sep 89 09:42:46 GMT References: <2439@auspex.auspex.com> <68400003@sts> <2441@auspex.auspex.com> Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland Lines: 13