Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:46:16 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks Message-ID: <20050111034616.GA1196@efn.org> References: <41E2E111.5040701@iopan.gda.pl> <41E2E529.1020603@familiehaase.de> <41E2EBF1.8050108@iopan.gda.pl> <41E2ED4F.6030901@familiehaase.de> <20050110210930.GD3757@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41E2F203.2040400@familiehaase.de> <20050110234135.GA3704@efn.org> <41E31C6A.8020302@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E31C6A.8020302@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:23:06AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > >>Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>>All I needed to trigger it was "perl -V". > >>>> > >>>>Hmmm, atoi() is not available on Win98/ME? Strange. > >>> > >>> > >>>Why would perl be finding atoi in ntdll.dll? It should be coming from > >>>the cygwin DLL shouldn't it? > >> > >>Yes, as it used to be, it is used all over the place in the perl > >>sources. I'm a little clueless now. > > > > > >Did you verify that it was Win32CORE at fault by trying a perl built > >without it? > > $ cat ext.libs > -L/lib/w32api -lnetapi32 -lwininet -lversion -lmpr -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 > -lwinmm -lstdc++ -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomctl32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 > -lntdll > > There it is: > $ cat ext/Win32CORE/hints/cygwin.pl > [...] > $self->{LIBS} = [q{ -L/lib/w32api -lnetapi32 -lwininet -lversion -lmpr > -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lwinmm -lstdc++ -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid > -lcomctl32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lntdll }]; > [...] > > >Perl itself doesn't use atoi, nor does Win32CORE.xs. I'm guessing > >Win32CORE is calling a win32 routine that isn't fully supported > >on win9x. One of: > > $ grep -r atoi * > [72 lines output] Sorry, I was thinking of atof. Anyway, Win32CORE.c doesn't use it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/