On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 04:11:34 +1100  Giles Lean wrote:

> Working:
> 
> 	5.004_04 on NetBSD-1.1/i386 (486DX2/66 and non-MMX Pentium/100)
> 	5.004 ditto (testing against the 5.004_04 lib/complex.t test)
> 
> Not working (all with non-MMX Pentium/100)
> 
> 	5.004_04 on NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/i386
> 	5.004_04 ditto, but compiled with gcc-2.7.2.1 (gcc built on 1.1)
> 	5.004 compiled on 1.1, running on NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/i386
> 
> Since the older binary works or fails depending on the OS release,
> I'm betting for the moment on a shared library bug.

You could also try compiling with -static if you suspect a shared
library bug.  Perl on the pmax didn't work with shared libs at on stage
(some funny modf() problems if I remember...).

Simon.