Re: ActivePerl 5.8 Beta 1: yea or nay?

[Courage]

Gurusamy Sarathy said on p5p list that, to his great regrets, he forgot to include "USE_LARGE_FILES" into that very first build, and it is a great dilemma whether or not further ActiveState 5.8.0 builds should be binary compatible with that very first one.
Needless to say, 2Gb restriction on file sizes could be a problem nowadays.

There could be some more sharp edges than that, I just know about only this one..

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

[diotalevi]

Jan Dubois from ActiveState said on the AS list that USE_LARGE_FILES is enabled. I can't find the e-mail in the archive but if you feel like looking for yourself there is more information over here.

__SIG__
use B;
printf "You are here %08x\n", unpack "L!", unpack "P4", pack
  "L!", B::svref_2object(sub{})->OUTSIDE;

[Courage]

The message I mentioned is here:

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-11/msg00305.html

You're absolutely right: they compiled with "USE_LARGE_FILES" enabled, but that option was not default on 5.8.0 source distribution in time.
as a result, that distribution that I compiled for me by myself, has that option switched off :(

Thanks for helping me to clarify the situation!

Courage, the Cowardly Dog