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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:46:16 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks
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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.

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