Thus spake Ossi Herrala (oherrala@ee.oulu.fi):

> With up to date sources it also fails on Solaris 9.

    Same here.  I get the same error with gcc3.3.  I also tried with gcc3.4
    and it dies with:

    In file included from perl.h:2838,
                     from toke.c:24:
    /usr/pkgsrc/lang/perl58/work/.buildlink/gcc34/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.3
    /include/math.h:23: warning: ignoring #pragma ident
    toke.c: In function `Perl_yylex':
    toke.c:2561: error: cast to union type from type not present in union
    *** Error code 1

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