> Why Perl ? Perl isn't used anywhere yet during the Valgrind build -- > that would introduce an additional dependency.
It just seems convenient, plus it is already a dependency and is checked for by the configure script. Some of the analysis scripts for Cachegrind and Massif are written in Perl (cg_annotate, ms_print), and maybe some others. > Bash can do 64-bit arithmetic as well. An example: > > $ bash -c 'echo $((1<<62))' > 4611686018427387904 Hmm, true. What about dash though? J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
