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diff --git a/README_d/README.sgi b/README_d/README.sgi index 49a5679c..69b11cd5 100644 --- a/README_d/README.sgi +++ b/README_d/README.sgi @@ -1,18 +1,20 @@ -Tue Sep 10 08:53:46 EDT 1996 +From emory!hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu!cks Mon Dec 30 20:12:35 1996 +Return-Path: <emory!hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu!cks> +To: arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us (Arnold D. Robbins) +Subject: Re: gawk regex bug +In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:45:00 -0400. + <m0ulQME-000GWyC@skeeve.atl.ga.us> +Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:37:30 -0500 +From: Chris Siebenmann <emory!hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu!cks> +Message-Id: <96Dec30.193738est.24603@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca> +Status: OR +Content-Length: 196 +X-Lines: 5 +X-Display-Position: 2 -Gawk 3.0.x is known to be broken on 64-bit SGI machines running IRIX 6.2. + The latest in my 'gawk on SGIs' stuff: with the newest SGI compilers +(MIPSPro 7.1, just released) gawk 3.0 compiles and passes the selftests +even at the highest (-O3) optimization level. -1) It needs to be compiled with the native cc, not gcc. + - cks -2) Even if compiled with the native cc, the -32 option must be used. - If not, the gensub and gnu regex tests fail. - -I don't have access to an IRIX 6.x machine, so I am not able to track -down the problem. If any kind soul is able to run gawk from a debugger -and figure out what the problem(s) are, and would let me know (and supply -patches!), I'd greatly appreciate it. - -Thanks! - -Arnold Robbins -arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu |