On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:01:17AM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > Are you sure it was actually compiled with -02? Did you check 'perl -V'?
Yep. Here's my latest perl -V: ------------------------ Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.23, archname=i686-linux uname='linux vulcan 2.4.23 #1 wed dec 3 22:52:28 est 2003 i686 gnulinux ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.3.2' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Mar 11 2004 05:52:10 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . ----------------------- > No, that's not what I was suggesting. I suggested that you take the failing > A-T as is, and start cutting chunks of the code leading to failure and > retrying, untill you get a minimal case. This is much better than starting > from the other side. Using that approach you have a constant failure, and > you know that removing some code doesn't affect it. I follow you. Will give it a go. Thanks for pushing me to find the root of the problem. William -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com