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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2007-09-24 08:34:14 +0000
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2007-09-24 08:34:14 +0000
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Announce plans for -Duse32bit* options for Configure, and document
that there is no guarantee on 32bit builds when no args passed p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31950
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@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ have to reboot/reconfigure/rebuild your operating system to be 64-bit
aware.
Natively 64-bit systems need neither -Duse64bitint nor -Duse64bitall.
+On these systems, it might be the default compilation mode, and there
+is currently no guarantee that passing no use64bitall option to the
+Configure process will build a 32bit perl. Implementing -Duse32bit*
+options is planned for perl 5.12.
=head3 Long doubles