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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
September 30, 2016 14:41
Subject:
vax-netbsd changes
Message ID:
957cfaf4-23f0-8205-6995-6a05ea4fe542@iki.fi
I committed a batch of changes with "vax-netbsd" prefix. They allow
building all of Perl in a vax-netbsd box -- they are all about avoiding
inf and nan, since the vax floating point formats have neither. More
than 95% of "make test" seemed to pass, too. (Though admittedly the
%a and hexfp are simply skipped for now, the fp formats are just too
non-IEEE-754. Maybe if I find some exceptionally well-rounded tuits.)
I tested the changes across 12-ish platforms with different floating
point formats, and found no problems with that.
One problem remains, though: in C++ builds the POSIX extension now
fails to build because it doesn't like the changes in perl.h regarding
the PL_inf and PL_nan. Something about the different linkage rules of
C++, looks like, maybe. I'll try to take a look later today but in the
meantime if someone else has sudden bout of inspiration, go ahead
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