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Spurious "Ambiguous use ... " #721

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p5pRT opened this issue Oct 15, 1999 · 2 comments
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Spurious "Ambiguous use ... " #721

p5pRT opened this issue Oct 15, 1999 · 2 comments

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p5pRT commented Oct 15, 1999

Migrated from rt.perl.org#1623 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT1623$

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p5pRT commented Oct 15, 1999

From mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk

  .....

  if ($last < $t0-MINGAP) {

gives the warning

  Ambiguous use of -MINGAP resolved as -&MINGAP() at ...

I see no ambiguity.

Mike Guy

% perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
  uname=''
  hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.7.2.3
  cppflags='-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include -DREG_INFTY=22786'
  ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include -DREG_INFTY=22786'
  stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Locally applied patches​:
  debug.list.file
  kill.0
  list.assign
  perlfaq8.typo
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Oct 13 1999 04​:22​:25
  @​INC​:
  /home/mjtg/perl5.005_03/lib
  /home/mjtg/perl5.005_03/lib
  /home/mjtg/perl5.005_03/lib
  .

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2000

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Still does this as of @​8137.

  use constant MINGAP => 60;

  .....

  if ($last < $t0-MINGAP) {

gives the warning

  Ambiguous use of -MINGAP resolved as -&MINGAP() at ...

I see no ambiguity.

Mike Guy

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