[Info-vax] Perl 5.34.0 for OpenVMS x86_64 installation kit available

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/20/21 12:32 PM, hb wrote:
> On 10/20/21 2:34 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> I've replaced it with an ordinary zip file (not self-extracting):
>>
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/VMSPORTS-X86VMS-PERL534-T0534-0-1.zip/download>
>>
>>
>> See if that works any better.

> Worked for me. Using it, I get an unexpected "Hexadecimal number >
> 0xffffffff non-portable" which I didn't see in perl 5, version 28 on IA64.

It's a very old warning (about 20 years).  The C code that does the
actual check is here:

<https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blob/a31d0367bbf1e97bab6eece95b47ca513e1834a6:/numeric.c#l577>

The check only happens if the size of a Perl integer is greater than 32
bits, so I suspect the difference is that I didn't make 64-bit integers
the default until just a couple of years ago:

<https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commit/c6981b9a20742358c4af17bc46ba8d20a1c46d07?f=configure.com>

and the first stable release in which the default changed would have
been Perl 5.32.0.  In other words, nothing to do with running on x86.

I think you can turn off that warning by putting

   no warnings 'portable';

in the same lexical scope as the code that triggers it.