At 7:55 PM -0600 2/19/08, John E. Malmberg wrote: >Craig A. Berry wrote: >>At 5:42 PM -0600 2/18/08, John E. Malmberg wrote: >>>proto.h needs to expose some macros on VMS that it does not after change >>>33291. >>> >>>I could not figure out how to generate a proto.h that looks like >>>the one produced by the attached patch. >> >>Let me take a stab at getting embed.fnc or whatever to work. We'll >>hold off on applying your patch for now, but yes, something needs to be >>done to get things buildable again.
Here's what I ended up doing: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/33343 >>>When I changed proto.h to expose those macros, it also exposed some >>>function prototypes that were different than in the VMS specific code. >In vms.c, it is removing the casts which are not needed when using the same >prototypes as the win32 variant. I kept that part and changed the prototype of the internal do_spawn2() to match. >The only reason that I can see to have the different prototypes is if the >compiler for that platform does not support them. In this case all versions >of DECC should support those prototypes. And the main reason to have them the same is that it also gives us the new assert macros. To maintain separate prototypes we'd now have to maintain separate macros as well. >It appears that win32 has a variant of do_spawn that does not wait for >completion. I am short of cycles to see what the impact of that being missing >on VMS is right now. I added Perl_do_spawn_nowait(), which is almost copy-and-paste from the Win32 routine of the same name. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
