On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:38:10AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> This patch does two only somewhat related things.
>
> Parrot/Opcode.pm: Change the hard-wired assumption that sizeof(nv) =
> 2*sizeof(iv) to a PConfig-type computed value.
>
> Parrot/Test.pm: Change it to run with the perl that was used to generate
> this version of Parrot. This is useful if, for example, you want to use
> bleadperl to build and test parrot (e.g. to try out various 64-bit
> options) but you still have a 5.6.x (or 5.005_xx) installed as the default
> 'perl' on your system. Since perl-5.7.x is installed 'version-only', a
> plain 'perl' is quite likely to pick up the older perl in such cases.
> Such an older perl might well not understand pack('q') used in the
> assembler.
Thanks, applied.
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