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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2010-06-07 06:23:19
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> Why Perl ? Perl isn't used anywhere yet during the Valgrind build -- > that would introduce an additional dependency. It just seems convenient, plus it is already a dependency and is checked for by the configure script. Some of the analysis scripts for Cachegrind and Massif are written in Perl (cg_annotate, ms_print), and maybe some others. > Bash can do 64-bit arithmetic as well. An example: > > $ bash -c 'echo $((1<<62))' > 4611686018427387904 Hmm, true. What about dash though? J |