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Re: Perl 3.0 PL 4 - Bad octal constant in perl.h

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From: Dolf Starreveld
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 15:01
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gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) writes:

> Compiling the patchlebel 4 perl 3.0 on a Solbourne running OS/MP 4.0A
> (a sun4 clone running SunOs4.0.1+a bit).

> perl.h line 269: Bad octal constant 87654321

> (This is part of the support for Cray long ints).  The SunOs 3.5
> compiler didn't mind.  I just commented out that part of the #if
> expression.  Next time, without the leading zeros?

> Greg.

On both SUN-3 and SUN-4 machines and Sparcstation/Sparcserver machines
I just left it as it was. The warnings are generated, but everything
seems to compile to useable executables without problem.
Larry should fix this, however, since the warnings are annoying.

--dolf
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