Thomas Pfau wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:11:14 +0200, Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
As you may have seen from my reply to the pumpking's announcement of
a code freeze, Perl 5.10.0 is almost upon us. You can snag an
up-to-the-minute copy here:
http://mirrors.develooper.com/perl/APC/perl-current-snap/perl-current-latest.tar.gz
We're still seeing a handful of test failures on VMS. If you have
time to help fix anything, that would be great -- or just build and
test in your environment and report back that would also be helpful.
I just snagged a copy to try to build under Simh. It wouldn't build
with MMS. I tried again using MMK but it got hung compiling
Ext/Digest/Sha/Sha.c. It grew to consume all available working set and
then went totally CPU bound - no IO, no faults, nothing, just compute.
Stayed that way for about an hour before I killed it. I just started
another build after removing Digest::Sha from the list of builtins.
That sounds like a known bug in the VAX DECC optimizer, PYTHON on VAX
has a similar problem. If we can find the offending routine, it may be
possible to put a VAX specific DECC pragma around it to disable
optimization for that routine to fix it.
-John
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