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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl 4.0 refuses to compile using gcc 1.30
Message-ID: <128361@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 11 Apr 91 19:24:02 GMT
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>In article <KHERA.91Apr10120433@thneed.cs.duke.edu> khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) writes:
>
>   the problem is that gcc and Sun's cc pass structures differently, and
>   the dbm routines take parameters that way.

Of course some of us think that passing, returning, and assigning
structures is A BAD THING and never should have been legalized.

Fortunately, only the DBM people were stupid enuf to use it.
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