On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:33:48AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > 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. >
The MS Visual Studio compilers are also very picky, and that's where I made some initial contributions. Alternative compilers on various OS's are also a good place to look for problems. Intel C++ is on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X (Intel). The alpha Sun Studio compiler is available for Linux. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
