Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: random notes on patches 42 thru 44 Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 14:46:58 GMT References: <1991Jan13.014908.3144@dsd.es.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 18 In-reply-to: rkrebs@archie.dsd.es.com's message of 13 Jan 91 01:49:08 GMT In article <1991Jan13.014908.3144@dsd.es.com> rkrebs@archie.dsd.es.com (Randall Krebs) writes: | Also, the mips compiler hates the way that perl uses volatile. I'm | not sure why, but I changed "d_volatile" to 'undef', too. We're | running RISC/os 4.50. If it's a compiler problem, maybe it will go | away someday. I'd like to hear from anybody compiling perl with | volatile defined. I do (on a DECstation), but then I use GCC (with my patches :-) to compile it. I seem to remember that the MIPS people saying that revision 2.20 of the compiler suite would finally be ANSI complaint.... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?