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On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:46:58 -0700, "James E Keenan via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jul 2017 08:19:31 GMT, mauke- wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Jul 2017 01:14:12 -0700, mauke- wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to be able __builtin_add_overflow, __builtin_sub_overflow, > > > __builtin_mul_overflow (safe +, -, * with overflow checks) in core > > > code. > > > > > > It would be nice if Configure had checks for those (it already checks > > > for > > > __builtin_choose_expr and __builtin_expect). > > > > I've attached patches to do that, but I'm not sure if this is the > > right way to do it (see bug #131688). > > > > The first patch extends Configure. > > > > The second patch extends config_h.SH, which contains a comment saying > > "THIS IS A GENERATED FILE. DO NOT HAND-EDIT. See > > Porting/config_h.pl", but I saw Porting/config_h.pl and it contains no > > useful information, so I hand-edited anyway. > > Now that metaconfig has its repository on github.com, should this RT > be re-formulated as an issue at that location? As these have already been merged into Configure, this ticket should simply be closed. > https://github.com/perl5-metaconfig/metaconfig/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous