Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:14:21PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

>> Good. Do we have currently any platforms that don't support dynamic
>> loading at all?

> Perl5 builds on UNICOS (Crays), which is a Unix without dynamic linking.
> (As my housemate explained, if your program is taking up a sufficient
> proportion of the Cray's memory that dynamic linking would be useful, then
> you're doing something badly wrong)

Old dynosaurus' POV. They never heard of flexibility.

> I think we're still failing some pack regression tests there. :-(

We'll fail more :)

> There was this long debugging-over-e-mail session with someone at Boeing,
> but I don't think that we managed to get all the bugs nailed down.

Is perl5 actually used on Crays? Anyway we might need a config hint to
turn of dynamic loading stuff.

> Nicholas Clark

Thanks,
leo

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