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On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:51:54 -0400, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
1346 days passed by (3 y, 8 m, 7 d)
Is this something that still needs attention?
If you have work in a usable state, can I get it to finish it?
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 08:04:43AM -0700, James E Keenan (via RT) wrote:
> > # New Ticket Created by James E Keenan
> > # Please include the string: [perl #134375]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134375 >
> >
> >
> > [The following is probably relevant to
> > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134371, but I'm filing it
> > separately as it may be a more general problem.]
> >
> > When I select '-Dcc=clang++', as distinct from '-Dcc=clang', ./Configure
> > produces different results. This difference appears to be independent
> > of both operating system and other configuration options.
>
> > Is this a bug in clang++? Or is it a bug in ./Configure?
>
> It is a bug in Configure. The 'checkit()' program is declared to return
> an integer, but actually returns nothing. (The return value is never used.)
> This is undefined behavior in C++, but apparently not in C. See
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43075
> for a simple test case and explanation.
>
> There are probably other such C vs. C++ bugs in Configure, including
> possibly the detection of
>
> d_futimes
> d_lchown
> d_strtoll
> d_strtoul
> d_strtoull
> d_strtouq
>
> I will leave this bug open as I work on those. Thank you for noticing
> this issue in the first place!
>
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