Re: 2nd draft of announcement

From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl@research.att.com>
Message-Id: <200206031257.IAA12388@raptor.research.att.com>

Let's not forget the mystery IRIX failure.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16996

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 3d97440..db3d332 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2865,6 +2865,13 @@ This is caused by the characters \xFF (y with diaeresis) and \xBE
 (Y with diaeresis) not behaving correctly when being matched
 case-insensitively.
 
+=head2 IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t
+
+IRIX with MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m compiler may fail the said List::Util test
+by dumping core.  This seems to be a compiler error since if compiled
+with gcc no core dump ensues, and no failures on the said test on any
+other platform.
+
 =head2 Modifying $_ Inside for(..)
 
    for (1..5) { $_++ }