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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-07-12 12:42:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-07-12 12:42:35 +0000 |
| commit | d7d85e3907e77682e4c8fc4a08694cd2fc999056 (patch) | |
| tree | e94c35e842ccaaacef941050a365015ea1b089d3 /pod/perl572delta.pod | |
| parent | 9d20a1314b841ee6db66deeff99b0fc708a100ca (diff) | |
| download | perl-d7d85e3907e77682e4c8fc4a08694cd2fc999056.tar.gz | |
Update the AIX known problems section.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11302
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diff --git a/pod/perl572delta.pod b/pod/perl572delta.pod index 199802deea..0dc191f91f 100644 --- a/pod/perl572delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl572delta.pod @@ -546,12 +546,13 @@ problems for all the 5.7 releases. =item * -If Perl is configured to use long doubles the op/int subtests 13 and -14 and the ext/POSIX subtest 14 may fail. - -=item * - -If Perl is configured to use threads the op/magic subtest 28 may fail. +In AIX 4.2 Perl extensions that use C++ functions that use statics +may have problems in that the statics are not getting initialized. +In newer AIX releases this has been solved by linking Perl with +the libC_r library, but unfortunately in AIX 4.2 the said library +has an obscure bug where the various functions related to time +(such as time() and gettimeofday()) return broken values, and +therefore in AIX 4.2 Perl is not linked against the libC_r. =item * |