On Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 02:22 PM, Chris Nandor wrote:
> Well, I should add that $Config{byteorder} is pretty arbitrary, as it
> can
> be changed after the build, and it really only affects N and V packs.
On Darwin, it is not set at build time (that is, it's set to 0xffff)
and instead computed at run time. This is because perl may have been
built for Intel on a PowerPC box and vice versa which makes it slightly
tricky to fix in Configure and, more importantly, may have been built
for both architectures. So a single Config.pm is use on either
platform, and hard-coding the byte order for one would be wrong for the
other.
-Fred
