Sun4os4 /bin/sh dumps core.

[Tor Lillqvist]

Various people write about the perl test suite failing with a
memory fault and dumped core on Sun 4 machines, a few even
thinking that it is /bin/sh that dumps core.

The problem with perl 3.0 on SPARC machines probably lies in
malloc.c, where the overhead union needs more strict alignment.
Adding a double field in the union takes care of that.  At least
this was the case on the HP9000 Series 800 (HP-PA, aka Spectrum),
which also is a strict-alignment RISC machine.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist
Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK)
tml at hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]