Michael G Schwern:
# On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:21:12PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
# > # Remember, I am not a C programmer. I just took my perl
# 5.6.1 that's
# > # compiled with 64 bit ints and ran Configure.pl with it.
# >
# > Okay. When Configure asks:
# >
# > How big would you like integers to be? [long long]
# >
# > just type 'long' (without quotes) and hit enter. You won't
# get 64-bit
# > support, but you will get a building Parrot, which is usually a good
# > thing. ;^)
#
# Well, the point isn't that Parrot builds. The point is that Configure
# should DWIM when I throw it Interesting (in the Chinese sense) perl
# configurations. Currently it doesn't.
#
# If Parrot is busted wrt 64 bit ints on 32 bit platforms, could
# Configure just throw a warning?
How do we detect if you've chosen a 64-bit int type? How do we detect
if we're on a 32-bit platform?
Actually, I may have just figured out how to do this. Nevermind. ;^)
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
#define private public
--Spotted in a C++ program just before a #include
