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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:57:36 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
Organization: Ched Research
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 diffs
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CBFalconer wrote:
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> >
> ... snip ...
> >
> > 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).
> 
> Try linking it with nmalloc, compiled with NDEBUG.  You might even
> want to try out all those debuggery things I created.
> 
>    <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/nmalloc.zip>

Did you ever see the above?  I suspect some things have been
getting lost on the mailing list.  When I announced the debuggery
package here I asked for testers to let me know if they tried it
out, and I have heard zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

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