perl on dec 5000, ultrix 4.0: $& and recursive evals fail

[Toshinori Maeno]

In <EMV.90Jul29213617 at urania.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv at math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

>In article <THEWALT.90Jul29124249 at canuck.ce.berkeley.edu> thewalt at canuck.ce.berkeley.edu (C. Thewalt) writes:

>   Ed said:   perl on dec 5000, ultrix 4.0.
>      fails tests 40-42 in op.s, all having to do with $&.
>      fails tests 8 and 9 in op.eval, dealing with recursive evals.

>   Chris said: I compiled everything without -O and all tests pass.

>   Ed said: thanks Chris and Michael Stryker (strkyer at phyc.ucsf.edu),
>      compiling with -g (not -O) and -DCRIPPLED_CC and it passes all
>      tests.
We had the same problem on our MIPS3240 and Sony RISC NEWS.
  Mr. Ohta found that Mips C compiler generates buggy code for perly.c
  when we compiled with -O.
  				Maeno Toshinori
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		Toshinori Maeno 
		Computer Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology