On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:08:40AM -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>
>
> On VMS the 6620 kit fails to build out of the box owing to a "missing"
> return() from the brand new Perl_magic_regdatum_set() function in mg.c:
That's why there's 6640 with a void Perl_magic_regdatum_set().
> CC/DECC /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/Define=PERL
> _CORE MG.C
>
> int
> ^
> %CC-W-MISSINGRETURN, Non-void function "Perl_magic_regdatum_set" does not contai
> n a return statement.
> at line number 382 in file DKB100:[PERL]MG.C;1
> %MMS-F-ABORT, For target MG.OBJ, CLI returned abort status: %X10B91260.
>
> And the VMS build stops dead there. Here by the way, is what is seen
> on Tr64 Unix 4.0D:
>
> `sh cflags libperl.so mg.o` mg.c
> CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/lo
> cc: Warning: mg.c, line 382: Non-void function "Perl_magic_regdatum_set" does n.
> int
> ^
>
> But with that T64 compiler it is a warning that does not abort
> the (GNU) make.
>
> I see that Perl_magic_regdatum_set() was not in 6612, but that it is
> now mentioned in proto.h (int prototype), embed.h, and perl.h in addition
> to mg.c. If Perl_magic_regdatum_set() cannot be retyped to void then the
> following bletcherous hack can enable the build to proceed with
> DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1:
>
> --- mg.c.orig Mon Aug 14 07:36:27 2000
> +++ mg.c Tue Aug 15 10:58:35 2000
> @@ -384,6 +384,9 @@
> {
> dTHR;
> Perl_croak(aTHX_ PL_no_modify);
> +#ifdef VMS
> + return(0);
> +#endif
> }
>
> U32
> End of Hack.
>
> Suggestions about a proper fix would be welcome.
>
> With that patch `mms test` returns:
>
> [.lib]cgi-html..........FAILED on test 9
>
> [.lib]ftmp-mktemp.......FAILED on test 5
> [.lib]ftmp-posix........FAILED on test 4
> [.lib]ftmp-security.....ok
> [.lib]ftmp-tempfile.....FAILED on test 4
>
> [.pod]find..............FAILED on test 2
>
> I'll see if I can address some of those later.
>
> By the way on Tru64 I saw:
>
> All tests successful.
> u=0.7 s=1.11667 cu=98.7 cs=35.1 scripts=246 tests=11136
>
> Peter Prymmer
>
>
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