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Re: perl v5.8.0 17303 on VMS_VAX V7.2

From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
June 19, 2002 12:05
Subject:
Re: perl v5.8.0 17303 on VMS_VAX V7.2
Message ID:
5.1.1.5.0.20020619125001.019e7f38@mail.mac.com
At 01:35 PM 6/19/2002 -0400, Brian Tillman wrote:
>When configuring this new perl kit, the procedure says:
>
>Checking to see if you have long double...
>You have long double.
>Checking to see how big your long doubles are...
>Your long doubles are  bytes long.
>
>Notice that there is no value for how long the long doubles are.

Hmm. Must be a bug in configure.com.  What do you get when you run the 
following test program:

$ create try.c
#if defined(__DECC) || defined(__DECCXX)
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("%d\n", sizeof(long double));
exit(0);
}
^Z
$ cc try
$ link try
$ run try




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