=head2 Threaded Perl
Threads seem to work OK, though at the moment not all tests pass when
-threads are used in combination with 64bit configurations.
+threads are used in combination with 64-bit configurations.
You may get a warning when doing a threaded build:
=head2 64-bit Perl
-If your AIX is installed with 64-bit support, you can expect 64bit
+If your AIX is installed with 64-bit support, you can expect 64-bit
configurations to work. In combination with threads some tests might
still fail.
64-bit applications. On PA-RISC, 32-bit objects and 64-bit objects do
not mix. period. There is no different behaviour for HP C-ANSI-C or GNU
gcc. So if you require your perl binary to use 64-bit libraries, like
-Oracle-64bit, you MUST build a 64bit perl.
+Oracle-64bit, you MUST build a 64-bit perl.
-Building a 64bit capable gcc on PA-RISC from source is possible only when
-you have the HP C-ANSI C compiler or an already working 64bit binary of
+Building a 64-bit capable gcc on PA-RISC from source is possible only when
+you have the HP C-ANSI C compiler or an already working 64-bit binary of
gcc available. Best performance for perl is achieved with HP's native
compiler.
As of the date of this document, Perl is fully 64-bit compliant on
HP-UX 11.00 and up for both cc- and gcc builds. If you are about to
-build a 64bit perl with GNU gcc, please read the gcc section carefully.
+build a 64-bit perl with GNU gcc, please read the gcc section carefully.
Should a user wish to experiment with compiling Perl in the LP64
environment, use the -Duse64bitall flag to Configure. This will force
Perl to be compiled in a pure LP64 environment (with the +DD64 flag for
-HP C-ANSI-C, with no additional options for GNU gcc 64bit on PA-RISC,
+HP C-ANSI-C, with no additional options for GNU gcc 64-bit on PA-RISC,
and with -mlp64 for GNU gcc on Itanium).
If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a version of
the compiler that supports 64-bit operations.)
Do not forget the space before the trailing quote.
Also note that this does not (yet) work with all configurations,
-it is known to fail with 64bit versions of GCC.
+it is known to fail with 64-bit versions of GCC.
=head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX