Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jbw From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perl-4.003 fails op/dbm.t on SPARC w/gcc Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 08:25:10 GMT References: <13613@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991May15.172208.15856@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 17 In-reply-to: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov's message of 15 May 91 17:22:08 GMT lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall) writes: Either make this work by using -UHAS_VOLATILE, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I tried that, but -U only works on predefined macros, not ones defined after starting (at least with this particular cc). Is this supposed to work? Does anyone know exactly what gcc is doing differently from cc in these circumstances? I remember that it is passing structures differently, but how? (All of this is under SunOS 4.1 on Sun 4 machines.) -- Joe Wells