Re: FAIL HTML-Parser-XS-2.99_03 sun4-solaris 2.7

Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:21:02 -0500


At 12:15 AM +0100 11/6/99, Gisle Aas wrote:
>  > >Does this patch cure the hang for you?
>  >
>  >
>  > Yes, it does.  Weird.  All tests pass.
>
>If I kill it with Ctrl-\ and examine the core dump I can see that it
>is stuck inside the 'while (s < end && isHALNUM(*s)) s++'-loop, but
>'s' does not appear to have any progress.  The values of the pointers
>'s' and 'end' are perfectly normal too.
>
>I suspect a compiler bug now.  Compiling without optimizations 'make
>OPTIMIZE=-g' also cures the bug.  Do you have other compilers to test
>it with?
>
>I was able to test it on a SunOS-5.6 with gcc-2.8.1.


All I've got on Solaris is gcc-2.95.2.  2.99_03 already works on 
ppc-linux and HP-UX 10.20 without problem, both with 2.95.2.


>
>After this I am now very much interested in more success reports for
>HTML-Parser-XS-2.99_05 on various platforms.

I'll be testing it tomorrow on Solaris, ppc-linux, and HP-UX.  I 
probably won't have any problems with it on the latter 2.

>
>Regards,
>Gisle

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