From: UnixOS2 Archive
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 04:53:57 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 53

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Saturday 22 February 2003
 Number  53
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Building NCURSES using Posix/2 : John Poltorak <jp at manninghammills.org>
2  Re:  Building NCURSES using Posix/2 : Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:41:46 +0000
From:  John Poltorak <jp at manninghammills.org>
Subject:  Re:  Building NCURSES using Posix/2

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:35AM +0100, Stefan Neis wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Poltorak wrote:

> Wasn't there a OS/2 specific fix with respect to malloc/Perl_malloc?
> Anyone knows details about the changed file(s)? I assume it fails to
> handle Posix/2 correctly.

I think the changes were done within makedef.pl.

IIRC they were made between RC3 and the actual release of v5.8.0.

I'll see if there is a copy of RC3 that I can locate somewhere on my 
network...

Meanwhile, looking through my list archives I came across this patch which 
may be related...

diff -Naur RC3/makedef.pl Patched/makedef.pl
--- RC3/makedef.pl  Thu Jul 11 16:32:10 2002
+++ Patched/makedef.pl  Wed Jul 17 15:38:46 2002
 at  at  -1315,8 +1315,6  at  at 

 sub output_symbol {
     my $symbol = shift;
-    $symbol = $exportperlmalloc{$symbol}
-        if $exportperlmalloc and exists $exportperlmalloc{$symbol};
     if ($PLATFORM =~ /^win(?:32|ce)$/) {
    $symbol = "_$symbol" if $CCTYPE eq 'BORLAND';
    print "\t$symbol\n";
 at  at  -1345,6 +1343,10  at  at 
     elsif ($PLATFORM eq 'os2') {
    printf qq(    %-31s \ at %s\n),
      qq("$symbol"), $ordinal{$symbol} || ++$sym_ord;
+   if (exists $exportperlmalloc{$symbol}) {
+     printf qq(    %-31s \ at %s\n),
+       qq("$exportperlmalloc{$symbol}" = "$symbol"), ++$sym_ord;
+   }
     }
     elsif ($PLATFORM eq 'aix' || $PLATFORM eq 'MacOS') {
    print "$symbol\n";


It means nothing to me, but made a significant difference to a number of 
Perl tests after it was applied.
 
> 	Regards,
> 		Stefan
> -- 
> Micro$oft is not an answer. It is a question. The answer is 'no'.
> 


-- 
John


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Date:  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:56:41 +0100 (CET)
From:  Stefan Neis <neis at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject:  Re:  Building NCURSES using Posix/2

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, John Poltorak wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:35AM +0100, Stefan Neis wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > Wasn't there a OS/2 specific fix with respect to malloc/Perl_malloc?
> > Anyone knows details about the changed file(s)? I assume it fails to
> > handle Posix/2 correctly.
> 
> I think the changes were done within makedef.pl.

Just to make sure nobody keeps wondering about old problems:
I got rid of the error popup (SYS2070) that made me believe there was
a malloc problem left by simply deleting earlier versions of
perl*{exe,dll} that were apparently interfering with the new build...

	Regards,
		Stefan
-- 
Micro$oft is not an answer. It is a question. The answer is 'no'.