On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:10:47PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:58, Bill Ricker wrote:
> > * Minimum GCC == whatever Perl5 was built with? or specific? > > Probably at least 2.9x. Why? IIRC gcc 2.7 was good and stable, and it's not like C89 has changed much in the past 10 years. I guess it's really down to whether the C compiler (gcc or otherwise) has awkward bugs on your platform. > > (Alas, I do _not_ have the Tru64/DEC compiler for Alpha AXP on my > > Debian/Alpha. There's someone I can talk to, I might be able to get > > it, or get access to it. Hmm.) > > Alpha would be very good. Any vendor compiler is very good at picking up sloppy C code. As well as Tru64, anyone with Irix, AIX, HP-UX, particularly if 64 bit, would be most welcome. Anyone got a Cray? sizeof(short) being 8 is always fun for surprising unwary source code. And something (Amdahl mainframes?) aren't 2's complement. Nicholas Clark
