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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
January 7, 2007 23:35
Subject:
Re: New release ?
Message ID:
20070108083543.27d0f178@pc09
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:49:11 +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net>
wrote:
> On 2007-01-05, at 20:07:09 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> > - initial value of NV_PRESERVES_UV_BITS
> >
> > As long as no-one explicitly tells me to alter the behaviour regarding
> > the second item, I will take no action.
>
> Currently, the default (/initial) value of NV_PRESERVES_UV_BITS
> is literal 'undef', which causes compilation failure of sv.c,
> despite Configure finishing successfully. So it's hard to make
> it worse in this case by changing the default.
What a superb summary. Not only me, but also the summarizer would greatly
appreciate if complex threads would be summarized this powerful!
Thanks, applied as change #29715
> As Nicholas pointed out, zero would be a much better default:
>
> > > b) Let Configure choose a safe minimum for nv_preserves_uv_bits
> > > and warn the user. Probably something like (4*$nvsize) or,
> > > to be perfectly safe, zero like in uconfig.h.
> >
> > I'd go for 0. It generates valid C code, and I think that it's also
> > semantically correct.
>
> The test failures that were caused by setting NV_PRESERVES_UV_BITS
> to zero should have been fixed by Sadahiro's patch, which has just
> been applied (change #29693).
>
> So, I'd vote for fixing this. I had already suggested this change:
>
> --- Configure.orig 2007-01-02 11:11:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ Configure 2007-01-02 19:18:48.000000000 +0100
> @@ -15322,7 +15322,7 @@
> [1-9]*) $echo "Your NVs can preserve only $nv_preserves_uv_bits bits of your UVs." 2>&1
> d_nv_preserves_uv="$undef" ;;
> *) $echo "Can't figure out how many bits your NVs preserve." 2>&1
> - nv_preserves_uv_bits="$undef" ;;
> + nv_preserves_uv_bits="0" ;;
> esac
>
> $rm -f try.* try
>
> Marcus
>
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