Perl *is* 100% 64bit compliant on HP-UX 11.00 and up (as long

as the compiler supports it)

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diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index ade3309..e0fb54f 100644 (file)
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -401,11 +401,15 @@ Work is being performed on Perl to make it 64-bit compliant on all
 versions of Unix.  Once this is complete, scalar variables will be able
 to hold numbers larger than 2^32 with complete precision.
 
-As of the date of this document, Perl is not 64-bit compliant on HP-UX.
+As of the date of this document, Perl is fully 64-bit compliant on
+HP-UX 11.00 and up for both ccc- and gcc builds.
 
 Should a user wish to experiment with compiling Perl in the LP64
 environment, use the -Duse64bitall flag to Configure.  This will force
 Perl to be compiled in a pure LP64 environment (via the +DD64 flag).
+(Note that these flags will only work with HP's ANSI C compiler.  If
+you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a version of
+the compiler that support 64-bit operations.)
 
 You can also use the -Duse64bitint flag to Configure.  Although there
 are some minor differences between compiling Perl with this flag versus
@@ -418,10 +422,6 @@ questions about 64-bit numbers when Configure asks you, you may get a
 configuration that cannot be compiled, or that does not function as
 expected.
 
-(Note that these Configure flags will only work with HP's ANSI C
-compiler.  If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a
-version of the compiler that support 64-bit operations.)
-
 =head2 Oracle on HP-UX
 
 Using perl to connect to Oracle databases through DBI and DBD::Oracle