Re: perl checking

On 05/22/2018 04:11 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> At Fri, 18 May 2018 14:02:39 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote in <5a6d6de8-cff8-1ffb-946c-ccf381800ea1(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
>> These two small patches allow us to run "perl -cw" cleanly on all our
>> perl code.
>>
>>
>> One patch silences a warning from convutils.pl about the unportability
>> of the literal 0x100000000. We've run for many years without this
>> giving us a problem, so I think we can turn the warning off pretty
>> safely.
> It was introduced by aeed17d000 (in 2017). The history of the
> file is rather short. Over 32-bit values do not apperar as a
> character so there's no problem in ignoring the warning for now,
> but can't we use bigint to silence it instead?
>

It would impose an additional dependency. bigint isn't installed by
default on many systems AFAICT, so I think we'd need a better reason
than this to require it.

I was a little optimistic about claiming that 'perl -cw' would run
cleanly with these two patches - there's a little remediation that will
be required in the src/msvc/tools directory. These patches at least let
it run to completion.

cheers

andrew

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