ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) (11/11/89)
I was trying out the IPC facility in Perl by typing in the sample given in
the man pages. Unfortunately, Perl could not complete the:
do "sys/socket.h"
statement on my machine because the regexp choked on the comments imbedded
in structure definitions, i.e.
struct msghdr {
caddr_t msgname; /* optional address */
.
.
}
Perl crokes with a "?+* follows nothing in regexp at ..." pointing at
the "/* optional address */" comment above. Is this a bug? Anyways, just
thought that I would mention it. I get around this by maintaining a
seperate include file for Perl with these structures edited out.
Ron
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+ last resort woan@peyote.cactus.org +lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (11/11/89)
In article <853@awdprime.UUCP> @cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron writes:
: I was trying out the IPC facility in Perl by typing in the sample given in
: the man pages. Unfortunately, Perl could not complete the:
: do "sys/socket.h"
: statement on my machine because the regexp choked on the comments imbedded
: in structure definitions, i.e.
: struct msghdr {
: caddr_t msgname; /* optional address */
: .
: .
: }
When the man page says to do "something.h", it means for you to include
a file from the *perl* library which has been translated from the corresponding
C include file by the program makelib. Perl doesn't grok C code.
makelib isn't completely done yet--it's good enough for defined constants,
but definitions that depend on the size of a type aren't correct yet.
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov