perl 3.0 patch #12

[Kee Hinckley]

In article <15233 at bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <1990Mar5.200203.25581 at trigraph.uucp> "John J. Chew" <poslfit at gpu.UTCS.UToronto.CA> writes:
>>Problems encountered while upgrading from patch 8 to patch 12 of
>>Perl 3.0 under A/UX 1.1 using cc:
>>
>>- The optimizer warns that some optimizations are lost due to table
>>  overflow when compiling eval.c and toke.c.  The generated code appears
>>  to be correct even if presumably suboptimal :-).

Ah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who had problems with that. The Apollo
compiler is quite dogged about never letting a possible optimization
escape its grasp. No giving up for it! Instead it simply took an hour
to compile the file!

						-kee
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