Our shopping cart web page invokes a huge perl cgi file (4500 lines)and takes around 20 seconds reponse time. Half of the time is perl compile and require time. We try to use B:CC backbone to compile perl into c executable to save some compile time. We are running perl5.6 on VMS-AXP7.21 and web server: OSU/3.8;UCX. Our simple test shows error if we have "use" statement in the perl code. We managed to generate c file from the perl file, but the c file has two kinds major warnings at compile time. One is unreachable code. Another one is uninitialized variable. The executable shows memory access error.
Details:
1) #dumper.pl 
use Data::Dumper;
print "Hello world\n";

2) $perl -M"O=CC",-odumper.c dumpler.pl

3) $CC/DECC /INCLUDE=PERL_ROOT:[LIB.VMS_AXP.5_6_0.CORE]/Standard=Relax
+ed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIA dumper.c

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message examples:
  lab_644d60:
..^
%CC-I-UNREACH, code can never be executed at label lab_644d60
at line number 21476 in file SYS$SYSDEVICE:[DYWWW.TEST]DUMPER.C;1

        MAYBE_TAINT_SASSIGN_SRC(sv);
........^
%CC-W-UNINIT1, The scalar variable "left" is fetched but not
initialized.
at line number 21415 in file SYS$SYSDEVICE:[DYWWW.TEST]DUMPER.C;1

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4>run time error:
!!$ run dumper.exe 
          
%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual
address=0000000000000000, PC=0000000000000000, PS=0000001B          
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
  image    module    routine             line      rel PC  
abs PC                    
                                            0 0000000000000000
0000000000000000     
 DUMPER  DUMPER  main                   70561 000000000005B0D0
000000000009B0D0                            
 DUMPER  DUMPER  __main                     0 0000000000000070
0000000000040070

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Edit 2001-03-21 by tye to wrap long text

In reply to perl to c on VMS by jyyoung

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