Installation issues "floating point error" message X2

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#866 (status was 'resolved')

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From root@www1.src.org

While installing perl on
Digital UNIX V4.0B (Rev. 564); Sat Aug 1 13​:42​:30 EDT 1998

the following errors were encountered...

first, this...

`sh cflags libperl.so util.o` util.c
  CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/loc
al/include -DLANGUAGE_C -O4
cc​: Warning​: util.c, line 2856​: In this statement, a floating point error occurs
in evaluating the expression "1.8e308".
return HUGE_VAL;
--------^

then this...

cc -c -std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C -O4
  -DVERSION=\"1.02\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.02\" -I../.. POSIX.c
cc​: Warning​: POSIX.xs, line 352​: Type long double has the same representation as
type double on this platform.
long double
^
cc​: Warning​: POSIX.xs, line 1315​: In this statement, a floating point error occu
rs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308".
  return HUGE_VAL;
-------------------^

no other notable errors, and perl seems to run fine, but haven't
tested any floating point code (yet). will send new bug report if
anything else shows up.

anything to worry about? anything to try?

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by shelman at Mon Jun 14 15:21:43 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=dec_osf, osvers=4.0, archname=alpha-dec_osf
    uname='osf1 www1.src.org v4.0 564 alpha '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O4', gccversion=
    cppflags='-std -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    ccflags ='-std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/shlib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc /usr/lib /var/shlib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -lm
    libc=/usr/shlib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/alpha-dec_osf/CORE'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-shared -expect_unresolved "*" -O4 -msym -s -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/alpha-dec_osf
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/alpha-dec_osf
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/users/shelman/bin:/usr/bin:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/sh

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