Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > As I noted online and in the Perl 6 design meeting earlier today, > the attached patch (applied to r28973) causes imcc to hang > while building rakudo at the step > > ../../parrot -o perl6.pbc perl6.pir > > This step never completes -- in fact, I inadvertently left > it running for four hours and it hadn't completed. > > I'm reporting this because it's extremely odd; the patch itself > does nothing more than add a function to src/builtins/guts.pir; > in fact, Rakudo doesn't even use that function yet. Within the > function, simply changing the placement of the push_eh opcode > seems to be enough to get things to compile again. > > Can anyone reproduce the problem on their systems?
Yes. On a very normal i386 32bit Linux box (Debian Etch) I get the same behaviour. Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
