On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >Here's the output from "perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts": > > > > > > -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias > >-DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -I/usr/local/include -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong > >-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/aix/CORE > > What does -q32 do?
That's particular to the IBM AIX compiler (xlc). It builds a binary intended to run in 32-bit address space (as opposed to -q64).
