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| author | Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@uk.sun.com> | 2005-11-03 12:54:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-11-03 12:29:18 +0000 |
| commit | 59fadd0047a1639f11dafe915dbb953e0197e065 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e6ad1385fcc3f1b896ac53582c2705a372c1e25 /README.solaris | |
| parent | ced84e60a279937a6d3baa19b9c0bda889e532f3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-59fadd0047a1639f11dafe915dbb953e0197e065.tar.gz | |
Document some bogus compiler warnings in README.solaris
Subject: Re: Why is malloc_wrap now the default?
Message-ID: <436A0878.1030703@sun.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25971
Diffstat (limited to 'README.solaris')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.solaris | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.solaris b/README.solaris index a8b32e04e0..d3b541f8f1 100644 --- a/README.solaris +++ b/README.solaris @@ -508,6 +508,19 @@ make sure that it includes the directory with the 'ar' command. This is a common problem on Solaris, where 'ar' is in the /usr/ccs/bin/ directory. +=item warning: dead part of constant expression is nonconstant + +If you are using the Sun Studio 10 compilers ('cc -V' reports "Sun C 5.7") you +may see lots of these errors while building perl. This is an erroneous warning +from the compiler, if you are interested in the details the Sun bug id is +6344975. The warnings can safely be ignored, but if they bother you they may +be suppressed by adding "-Accflags=-erroff=E_DEAD_NONCONST" to your Configure +command-line. Note however that earlier versions of the compiler don't have the +ability to report this warning and will complain about a bad message tag if you +specify that you want the compiler to suppress the warning. Note also that the +erroff option embedded into Config.pm and will be used for building any XSUB +modules post-install. + =back =head1 MAKE TEST @@ -688,7 +701,3 @@ drawing heavily on advice from Alan Burlison, Nick Ing-Simmons, Tim Bunce, and many other Solaris users over the years. Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>. - -=head1 LAST MODIFIED - -$Id: README.solaris,v 1.4 2000/11/11 20:29:58 doughera Exp $ |