Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!mephisto!prism!fsu!nu.cs.fsu.edu!nall From: nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu (John Nall) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: More on castulong Message-ID: <638@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 6 Apr 90 14:11:55 GMT Sender: news@fsu.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Lines: 18 The current level of Perl (kits@18) will not make satisfactorily on systems where Larry's Configure file determines that the C compiler does not know how to cast negative numbers to unsigned longs, ints and shorts. The reason is that if the symbol CASTNEGFLOAT is undefined in config.h, then perl.h comes up with something called castulong() which is not defined anywhere so far as I can determine. CASTNEGFLOAT is not defined if the C compiler does not perform as per paragraph 1 above. I can work around the problem, but would just as soon see the official version of castulong() posted. -- John W. Nall | Supercomputation Computations Research Institute nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu | Florida State University #include | Tallahassee, FL 32306