***
*** Therefore, I strongly suggest upgrading your gcc. (Why don't you use
*** the vendor cc is also a good question. It comes with the operating
-*** system and produces good code.)
+*** system, produces good code, and is very ANSI C fastidious.)
Cannot continue, aborting.
EOF
fi
+ # -ansi is fine for gcc in Tru64 (-ansi is not universally so).
+ _ccflags_strict_ansi="-ansi"
;;
-*) # compile something small: taint.c is fine for this.
+*) # compile something.
+ cat >try.c <<EOF
+int main() { return 0; }
+EOF
ccversion=`cc -V | awk '/(Compaq|DEC) C/ {print $3}' | grep '^V'`
# the main point is the '-v' flag of 'cc'.
- case "`cc -v -I. -c taint.c -o taint$$.o 2>&1`" in
+ case "`cc -v -c try.c 2>&1`" in
*/gemc_cc*) # we have the new DEC GEM CC
_DEC_cc_style=new
;;
_DEC_cc_style=old
;;
esac
- # cleanup
- rm -f taint$$.o
+ # We need to figure out whether -c99 is a valid flag to use.
+ # If it is, we can use it for being nauseatingly C99 ANSI --
+ # but even then the lddlflags needs to stay -std1.
+ # If it is not, we must use -std1 for both flags.
+ case "`cc -c99 try.c 2>&1`" in
+ *"-c99: Unknown flag"*) _ccflags_strict_ansi="-std1" ;;
+ *) # However, use the -c99 only if compiling for
+ # -DPERL_MEM_LOG, where the C99 feature __func__
+ # is useful to have. Otherwise use the good old
+ # -std1 so that we stay C89 strict, which the goal
+ # of the Perl C code base (no //, no code between
+ # declarations, etc).
+ # The -DPERL_MEM_LOG can be either in ccflags
+ # (if using an old config.sh) or in the command line
+ # (which has been stowed away in UU/cmdline.opt).
+ case "$ccflags `cat UU/cmdline.opt`" in
+ *-DPERL_MEM_LOG*) _ccflags_strict_ansi="-c99" ;;
+ *) _ccflags_strict_ansi="-std1" ;;
+ esac
+ ;;
+ esac
+ _lddlflags_strict_ansi="-std1"
+ # Cleanup.
+ rm -f try.c try.o
;;
esac
-# be nauseatingly ANSI
-case "$isgcc" in
-gcc) ccflags="$ccflags -ansi"
- ;;
-*) ccflags="$ccflags -std1"
- ;;
-esac
+# Be nauseatingly ANSI
+ccflags="$ccflags $_ccflags_strict_ansi"
# for gcc the Configure knows about the -fpic:
# position-independent code for dynamic loading
esac
# -msym: If using a sufficiently recent /sbin/loader,
# keep the module symbols with the modules.
- lddlflags="$lddlflags -msym -std1"
+ lddlflags="$lddlflags -msym $_lddlflags_strict_ansi"
fi
;;
esac
exit 1
;;
*)
- # Test whether libc's been fixed yet.
+ # Test whether libc's been fixed yet for long doubles.
cat >try.c <<\TRY
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
# Don't bother trying to work with Configure's idea of
# cc and the various flags. This might not work as-is
# with gcc -- but we're testing libc, not the compiler.
- if cc -o try -std1 try.c && ./try
+ if cc -o try $_ccflags_strict_ansi try.c && ./try
then
: ok
else
# * Set -Olimit to 3200 because perl_yylex.c got too big
# for the optimizer.
#
+