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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:09:24 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Perl 5.8.0 diffs
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Hello.

Richard Dawe wrote:
> I've put my current diffs for Perl 5.8.0 here:
> 
>     http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/perl/5.8.0/
> 
> This includes the bugfixes I made for 5.6.1. I haven't tested Perl 5.8.0 out
> much. From what I remember, the test suite hangs during a Unicode test. I
> haven't debugged that yet.

The test ext/Encode/t/Uncode.t doesn't actually hang. It just takes a very
long time (Athlon 850MHz, 640MB memory). I'll make it skip the long part of
the test (tests 23 onwards) unless RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS is defined in the
environment (a` la fileutils/coreutils). It tests growing a string, so I
wonder if it's hitting some pathological memory allocation problem (i.e.: the
free issue).

Anyway the test suite appears to hang in a signal handling test, but I haven't
debugged that yet. Maybe it also takes a long time. ;)

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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