On Tue Nov 27 06:44:11 2012, Mithaldu wrote: > Alright, after a lengthy session of looking at things with bulk88, > another aspect of the problem is now clear: > > I compiled perl on Win7-64, using the MinGW included in 32 bit Perl > distros. Due to the OS, the makefile decides to use 64 bit header files, > but due to the compiler the resulting binary is actually a 32 bit binary, > using 64 bit configuration values. > > The -v/-V output of miniperl demonstrates this: https:// > gist.github.com/7673e573f642a7896d70 and analysis of the PE headers > supports it. > > At first blush one could think that this means the correct solution is to > use a 64 bit compiler instead. I have started a smoke of blead with a 64 > bit MinGW (gcc version 4.5.4 (rubenvb-4.5.4)) and its miniperl does not > exhibit the problematic 8 gb behavior. However now it just doesn't output > anything anymore. The command mentioned in the first message of this bug > results in the file "log" being 0 bytes long. Mithaldu, bulk88: Would it be possible to get an update on the status of this ticket? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=115904Thread Previous | Thread Next