On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:15, Terence J. Young, D.C. wrote:
> How can you tell if threads are enabled?
>
> How do you know if you are using 64 bit integers (is this a solaris
> thing or a Perl thing?)
You can get all that information via perl -V.
The 64 bit ints are a configuration thing, with the default being "off".
Michael
>
> Michael Peppler wrote:
>
> >One of the DBD::Sybase users is reporting that DBD::Sybase segfaults on
> >startup when built with DBI 1.38, perl 5.8.0 with ithreads and 64 bit
> >integers (but NOT 64 bit everything).
> >
> >DBD::Sybase fails the first time it tries to access DBIS:
> >
> >In dbd_init() we have:
> >
> > if(DBIS->debug >= 2) {
> > char *p = "";
> > if((sv = perl_get_sv("DBD::Sybase::VERSION", FALSE)))
> > p = SvPV(sv, lna);
> >
> >and it segfaults on the if() statement.
> >
> >If I'm not mistaken, this comes from the following:
> >
> ># define DBIS (*(dbistate_t**)&SvIVX(DBISTATE_ADDRSV))
> >
> >which is used if MULTIPLICITY is defined (which it is when ithreads is
> >enabled).
> >
> >SvIVX will return a 64 bit entity in this situation, but pointers are 32
> >bit.
> >
> >I have a feeling that there isn't any direct work-around, other than not
> >using 64 bit integers?
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >
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