Do not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5637

diff --git a/hints/irix_6.sh b/hints/irix_6.sh
index 6119c0d..9d9852d 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/irix_6.sh
+++ b/hints/irix_6.sh
@@ -142,8 +142,17 @@ case "$cc" in
        ld=$cc
 
        # perl's malloc can return improperly aligned buffer
-       # usemymalloc='undef'
-malloc_cflags='ccflags="-DSTRICT_ALIGNMENT $ccflags"'
+       # which (under 5.6.0RC1) leads into really bizarre bus errors
+       # and freak test failures (lib/safe1 #18, for example),
+       # even more so with -Duse64bitall: for example lib/io_linenumtb.
+       # fails under the harness but succeeds when run separately,
+       # under make test pragma/warnings #98 fails, and lib/io_dir
+       # apparently coredumps (the last two don't happen under
+       # the harness.  Helmut Jarausch is seeing bus errors from
+        # miniperl, as was Scott Henry with snapshots from just before
+       # the RC1. --jhi
+       usemymalloc='undef'
+#malloc_cflags='ccflags="-DSTRICT_ALIGNMENT $ccflags"'
 
        nm_opt='-p'
        nm_so_opt='-p'