X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.tru64;h=d65175a4c0b883a554ad5c9f4b0f37eb8bac75a3;hb=26f423df377276528161ee2c2bb3d257fc527c90;hp=4eb6a001f94fb649264a0518781a531ea7364112;hpb=8fa7f3676ed75809365905727fbae97dc8767f29;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.tru64 b/README.tru64 index 4eb6a00..d65175a 100644 --- a/README.tru64 +++ b/README.tru64 @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ example the regular expressions are not thread-safe. The bugs are very hard to fix are and therefore the 5.005 threads model is still classified as an experimental feature. +=head2 Long Doubles on Tru64 + +You cannot Configure Perl to use long doubles unless you have at least +Tru64 V5.0, the long double support simply wasn't functional before +that. + =head2 64-bit Perl on Tru64 In Tru64 Perl's integers are automatically 64-bit wide, there is @@ -53,7 +59,7 @@ in INSTALL. Similarly, there is no need for -Duse64bitall. When compiling Perl in Tru64 you may (depending on the compiler release) see two warnings like this - cc: Warning: util.c, line 3797: In this statement, floating-point overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl) + cc: Warning: numeric.c, line 104: In this statement, floating-point overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl) return HUGE_VAL; -----------^