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From: beldar@mips.COM (Gardner Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Patch 9-12 problem with volatile and mips compilers
Keywords: volatile
Message-ID: <36635@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 21:14:09 GMT
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Configure determines that volatile is accepted by the mips compiler
(riscos 4.1 and decstation 3100 ultrix), but unfortunately the mips
compiler doesn't accept storage class specifications after a '*';
e.g.,

extern char * blah;
char extern * blah;

are acceptable but
char * extern blah;

is not (the same for static and volatile).  The easy solution is to
claim that volatile isn't understood.  The harder one is to edit all
the volatile declarations.  Sigh.
-- 
Gardner Cohen     beldar@mips.com   (408) 991-6567