From bef58541c5c970d738b420d60bf573e3d728ab4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:56:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document a faint compilation noise. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19355 --- README.aix | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.aix b/README.aix index 9044bae..b8c192b 100644 --- a/README.aix +++ b/README.aix @@ -200,6 +200,20 @@ Should yield no problems. Threads seem to work OK, though at the moment not all tests pass when threads are used in combination with 64bit configurations. +You may get a warning when doing a threaded build: + + "pp_sys.c", line 4640.39: 1506-280 (W) Function argument assignment between types "unsigned char*" and "const void*" is not allowed. + +The exact line number may vary, but if the warning (W) comes from a line +line this + + hent = PerlSock_gethostbyaddr(addr, (Netdb_hlen_t) addrlen, addrtype); + +in the "pp_ghostent" function, you may ignore it safely. The warning +is caused by the reentrant variant of gethostbyaddr() having a slightly +different prototype than its non-reentrant variant, but the difference +is not really significant here. + =head2 64-bit Perl If your AIX is installed with 64-bit support, you can expect 64bit -- 2.7.4