On Nov-08, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote:
>
> ># New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty
> ># Please include the string: [perl #18189]
> ># in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> ># <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18189 >
> >
> >
> >Not OK: This is a failure report for parrot.
> >
> >When built with 'long long' INTVAL and opcode_t, I get the following
> >failures on i386/linux. I'm pretty sure these tests also fail on SPARC
> >(along with other failures) so for once I don't think it's an endian
> >thing.
>
>
> I wanted to check this problem, but dumb question: how do I configure
> parrot to get this configuration?
> (i386/linux perl 5.005.03 and 5.6.1)
>
> I tried to set intval "long long" and opcodesize "long long" and got:
> Configure.pl: Unable to find a functional packtype for intvalsize.
> 'q' failed: Invalid type in pack: ...
You need a perl5 compiled with 64-bit ints. Excerpt from the pack()
docs:
q A signed quad (64-bit) value.
Q An unsigned quad value.
(Quads are available only if your system supports 64-bit
integer values _and_ if Perl has been compiled to support those.
Causes a fatal error otherwise.)
I had to recompile a perl just for this purpose. It looks difficult to
remove this restriction.
