From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:22:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Do not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.
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Do not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5637
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diff --git a/hints/irix_6.sh b/hints/irix_6.sh
index 6119c0d..9d9852d 100644
--- 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'