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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Patch12 on VAX/Ultrix2.0
Message-ID: <7272@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 5 Mar 90 19:25:33 GMT
References: <1990Mar5.174749.23148@iwarp.intel.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Mar5.174749.23148@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: Larry, for the few other poor souls that are stuck with 4-year-old
: Ultrix bits, please put this in the next README, or figure out why it
: might be indicating that 'volatile' exists in a crufty old compiler.

What we need is a test case that will blow up for your compiler.  Could
you come up with something shorter than perl itself?  I don't have access
to a "classic" Ultrix.

: $_="Just another Perl hacker,";s`.`sleep 1;echo -n "$&" >&2`eg;

Not portable, alas.

Larry