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On 18 September 2013 09:09, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/918a99855942c0fd537bfb53db879145da60b0a9?hp=3428cdc0d37397cde9ca9ce6df51303e0eb01dea>
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> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
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> commit e25d460c7424add881539f78a45c918bc5d5bc94
> Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
> Date: Tue Sep 17 14:10:28 2013 +0200
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> For PERL_CORE, don't undefine HAS_QUAD when building with 32 bit IVs.
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> When commit de1c2614758a00c0 added support for $Config{d_quad} and HAS_QUAD
> in Oct 1999, it also undefined HAS_QUAD. It's been that way ever since.
>
> This isn't actually correct on a platform with a 64 bit type available, but
> changing it now will cause too much breakage on CPAN for too little gain
> (See RT #119753). However, we do need HAS_QUAD in the core for use by the
> drand48 code, so make the undef conditional on PERL_CORE not being set.
>
> M perl.h
This change broke the VC6 build on Windows again. Sigh... Now fixed in
commit cb4b14d5c4.
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