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Re: [PATCH: perl@11006] s/div/lib\$ediv/ in Time::HiRes for VAX

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
June 29, 2001 15:20
Subject:
Re: [PATCH: perl@11006] s/div/lib\$ediv/ in Time::HiRes for VAX
Message ID:
20010629172022.H19034@chaos.wustl.edu
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I submitted a patch to allow Time::HiRes to compile on the VAX:
> 
>  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-06/msg01709.html
> 
> Thanks to Craig Berry's brilliant investigative work with the LIB$ RTL
> Library Manual I've managed to get the VAX to pass all but one of the
> hires.t tests using the lib$ediv() routine suggestion from Craig, and even
> the failure is much closer and less non-sensical than the result using
> just div() (and is fairly understandable).  Here is the new patch taken
> w.r.t. the _patched_ version of perl@11006, that is assuming that the
> previously mentioned patch is in the archive:

Thanks, applied.  Aloha.

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