[rt.cpan.org #81748] strawberry perl 5.8.9 with mingw.org gcc 3.4.5 alloca broken

[email protected] ("Daniel Dragan via RT") Tue, 9 Apr 2013 01:05:25 -0400

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Tue Apr 09 01:05:23 2013: Request 81748 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
       Queue: Win32-API
     Subject: strawberry perl 5.8.9 with mingw.org gcc 3.4.5 alloca broken
   Broken in: 0.74
    Severity: Normal
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81748 >


Fixed in 0.76_01. malloc.h is #included for the alloca define. Builds and passed on my strawberry on 5.8.9 but a different bug (can't load API.dll into the process) exists on some Perls with Mingw 3.4.5 compilers.