Bug#374396: Some findings about this bug

2006-08-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi there again! After hours and hours of sitting behind the compiler, we are almost certain that the problem is with the -fdelayed-branch optimization. Compiling perl with -O2 -fno-delayed-branch in hppa works fine. I have prepared a small patch that forces pp_pack.c (the troublesome one) to b

Bug#374396: Some findings about this bug

2006-08-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hola Steve Peters! > It sounds like the gcc optimization is causing various math "optimizations" to > occur. For Perl, however, math optimizations typically cause failures in > t/op/numconvert.t and t/op/pack.t. You may want to test with -O1 to narrow > the possible -f option that may be causi

Bug#374396: Some findings about this bug

2006-08-04 Thread Steve Peters
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:40:09PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > I've been working with a couple of friends (Damián Viano and Martín > Ferrari), in trying to fix this bug. We've built perl in an hppa machine > and use that build to test the following things. > > This line: >

Bug#374396: Some findings about this bug

2006-08-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! I've been working with a couple of friends (Damián Viano and Martín Ferrari), in trying to fix this bug. We've built perl in an hppa machine and use that build to test the following things. This line: ./perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*", -1);' can be used to test the proble