Since I have upgraded to 5.8 my C perl interface won't work. I noticed that in the small print of the release it says that it is not backward compatible!?!? and the XS functions wont work. My question is how do I get my code to run??

here is the code

#include <EXTERN.h>
#include <perl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "GIEAsnmp.h"

#define CLIENT_ID "INTERFACE"


static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;
int count;
int counter;
char *queue;
char *tempPop;
char *temp;
int i = 0;


EXTERN_C void xs_init _((void));

EXTERN_C void boot_DynaLoader _((CV* cv));

EXTERN_C void
xs_init(void)
{
                 
    char *file = __FILE__;
    dXSUB_SYS;
    

    /* DynaLoader is a special case */
    newXS("DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader", boot_DynaLoader, file);


}

struct interpreter * perlstart()
{

char *my_argv[] = { "", "dataquery.pl"};
                 
my_perl = perl_alloc();



perl_construct(my_perl);


perl_parse(my_perl, xs_init, 2, my_argv, (char **)NULL);


return (my_perl);

}



void perlstop(struct interpreter *my_perl)
{

perl_destruct (my_perl);

perl_free(my_perl);

}
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there is more but I think that should illustrate the issue. I have tried removing all the xs related stuff but constantly get the errors below when trying to compile

"struct drand48 data" is undefinded as well as "struct random_data" is undefined from reentr.h, this is all on an AIX box by the way - I wasn't even aware I was using the two structures!!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Incidently the errors I am getting from my XS stuff are from the newXS line and the perl_parse line and the erros were:

"interface.c", line 32.46: 1506-280 (W) Function argument assignment b
+etween types "void(*)(struct interpreter*,struct cv*)" and
 "void(*)(struct cv*)" is not allowed.
"interface.c", line 49.21: 1506-280 (W) Function argument assignment b
+etween types "void(*)(struct interpreter*)" and "void(*)(v
oid)" is not allowed.
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sorry for the long post!

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