>>>>> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:50:39 -0500, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> said:

  > Just a thought from past version number oddities: is PAUSE a 64-bit
  > perl and is the comparison a numeric one?  It's remarkable how X !=
  > 'X' sometimes.

No, it isn't

% /usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5/bin/perl -V              
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 0) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.8-2-686-smp, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux pause 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 smp tue aug 16 12:08:30 utc 2005 i686 
gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Uversiononly -Dusedevel -des 
-Dprefix=/usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector 
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)', 
gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.7'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib 
-fstack-protector'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_USE_DEVEL
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
  Locally applied patches:
 RC5
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Apr 11 2010 18:09:13
  @INC:
    /usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5/lib/site_perl/5.12.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5/lib/site_perl/5.12.0
    /usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5/lib/5.12.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/perl-5.12.0-RC5/lib/5.12.0
    .


-- 
andreas

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