On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:30:50PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BSD may still be using a traditional "a.out" object format which does > not have the hooks (e.g. SunOS also used to fail this sort of thing.) > >On FreeBSD 4.5 with 5.005_03 it always aborts (regardless of PERL_DL_NONLAZY). > exceptions have been subject to radical re-design in gcc - if your free bsd > machine has as old a gcc as it has a a perl chances are exceptions just > don't work right at all. $ uname -a FreeBSD thinking-cap.moo 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #1: Wed Feb 6 16:15:14 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/stuff/usr/src/sys/compile/THINKINGCAP i386 $ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD] $ file /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped While on Debian here I have: $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/2.95.4/specs gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease) $ file /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Advanced RISC Machines ARM, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped (and x86 should be just the same) I don't know if FreeBSD and Linux use the same x86 ABI (particularly for C++ exceptions) and (obviously) FreeBSD isn't using glibc. (I realise this doesn't suggest how to cure the problem - it's more just to say that the release of the BSD Bill is using is pretty close in most way to Debian, hence the problem can only be in a few specific differences) Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
