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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:43:25 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net, DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 diffs
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Hello.

CBFalconer wrote:
> 
> *** posted and mailed ***
> 
> 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.

Yes, I did see it. I'm debugging other problems in Perl 5.8.0.

Bye, Rich =]

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