From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pausmith> %% Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pausmith>
pausmith> rl> Oh? Let's see, for Windows, there's CygWin, Ming something,
pausmith> rl> Borland and Microsoft as compiler environments.
pausmith>
pausmith> Yes, but these are build issues (makefile stuff) moreso than
pausmith> compile issues.
Oh, so all those compilers work exactly the same way (including
functionality like "asm"), the corresponding C RTL has exactly the
same set of functions with exactly the same functionality and no bugs?
Come on, that was naive if anything.
pausmith> Since relatively few people on Windows will compile the code
pausmith> themselves anyway (in my experience) it seems reasonable to
pausmith> allow the bar to be higher for Windows.
My wife taught me the expression "never assume..." :-)
pausmith> rl> On VMS, you have DEC C and GNU C, and the contents of the C RTL is
pausmith> rl> very much depending on the operating system version.
pausmith>
pausmith> Well, I'm not too familiar with VMS. In GNU make, again, we
pausmith> haven't had to make much differentiation between RTLs.
Well, anyway, that point is moot since the VMS build is completely
separated from anything Perly... I had some plans about that, but
with autoconf, that won't work at all...
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