$NetBSD: patch-ae,v 1.8 2001/09/05 17:13:41 jlam Exp $

--- regcomp.c.orig	Wed Mar 21 21:05:02 2001
+++ regcomp.c	Sat Sep  1 03:57:59 2001
@@ -541,6 +541,17 @@
 	cl->flags |= ANYOF_EOS;
 }
 
+/*
+ * There are strange code-generation bugs caused on sparc64 by gcc-2.95.2.
+ * These need to be revisited when a newer toolchain becomes available.
+ */
+#if defined(__sparc64__) && defined(__GNUC__)
+#if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 96)
+#undef SPARC64_WORKAROUND
+#define SPARC64_WORKAROUND 1
+#endif
+#endif
+
 /* REx optimizer.  Converts nodes into quickier variants "in place".
    Finds fixed substrings.  */
 
@@ -1076,11 +1087,28 @@
 		    int counted = mincount != 0;
 
 		    if (data->last_end > 0 && mincount != 0) { /* Ends with a string. */
+#if defined(SPARC64_WORKAROUND)
+			I32 b = 0;
+			STRLEN l = 0;
+			char *s = NULL;
+			I32 old = 0;
+
+			if (pos_before >= data->last_start_min)
+			    b = pos_before;
+			else
+			    b = data->last_start_min;
+
+			l = 0;
+			s = SvPV(data->last_found, l);
+			old = b - data->last_start_min;
+
+#else
 			I32 b = pos_before >= data->last_start_min 
 			    ? pos_before : data->last_start_min;
 			STRLEN l;
 			char *s = SvPV(data->last_found, l);
 			I32 old = b - data->last_start_min;
+#endif
 
 			if (UTF)
 			    old = utf8_hop((U8*)s, old) - (U8*)s;