Re: lang/perl5 on VAX wants NaNs and infinities

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Organization SoftJAR AB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's been this way for almost ever.

VAX don't have IEEE FP, so there are some differences between how it 
works on VAX and IEEE. You just have to make it accept that some tests 
fail, and hack around some code that might expect this.

   Johnny

On 2024-12-28 17:01, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Perl is now at version 5.40.0. This new version fails to compile because 
> it wants to use NV_INF and NV_NAN.
> 
> What's the best way to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> John

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