Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Plans for a 1.06 release

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

>> As this looked so serious I downloaded 5.10.0 (1002) to test this and I =
can see what you see.
>> This is a major problem in general, not just for Win32::GUI (my own XS m=
odules fail their
>> test suit due to this issue).
>
> Jan (ActiveState) confirmed and explained the problem (follow the
> rt.perl.org link above).
>
>> Looks like I wont be upgrading to 5.10 any time soon:)
>
> Turns out there is a simple solution - add the -mms_bitfields option
> to your cflags to get gcc to use the same bitfield-alignment as MSVC.
>
> I've submitted a patch to ActiveState, which I hope will make it into
> their next build. In the meantime be *VERY* wary of any modules for
> ActiveState 5.10 that are built with gcc.

Tested with the -mms_bitfields option and the problem goes away. All my XS =
modules now pass their tests.

Good find.

Cheers,

jez.
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