My speculation would be that this is the problem (but I don't have the prerequisites here to try).

Seems reasonable - and it may be *part* of the problem, but I feel there's gotta be more to it than that.
Presumably GIMME_V is also a complex macro in 5.8.x, yet there's no such problem there. I guess that some change in GIMME_V between 5.8 and 5.10 has triggered the event. I'm a little curious as to whether that change constitutes a bug.
Also, note that there's no problem using this "foreign" MinGW compiler with ActivePerl. The problem arises only when binaries (involving GIMME_V) built on MinGW-built perl are installed onto ActivePerl (and vice-versa). Everything is sweet if the binaries installed on ActivePerl are compiled using ActivePerl and MinGW.

So ... I guess we're also looking at some difference between the 2 perl dll's themselves. I'm of the uninformed opinion that such a difference ought *not* exist - which is just another way of saying "I don't know whether it's right that such a difference should exist, but I'd prefer it not to be".

Thanks for your input.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: GIMME_V==G_ARRAY anomaly on win32 (5.10 only) by syphilis
in thread GIMME_V==G_ARRAY anomaly on win32 (5.10 only) by syphilis

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