Re: What's holding up mainperl from upgrading Make: msg#00071

Re: What's holding up mainperl from upgrading MakeMaker?: msg#00071

Subject:	Re: What's holding up mainperl from upgrading MakeMaker?

Nicholas Clark wrote:


However, VMS is currently failing to build even miniperl, due to its C
compiler being more stringent about const consistency than anything else
on the planet.

Being that stringent is important to be able to optimize code for modernCPU chips.

If it is not easy to fix by adding a const qualifier to the calledroutine, then the error is indicating what could be a data corruption issue.


-John
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