In trying to build the Perl Curses module (Curses-1.12)
under Perl 5.8 on a new AIX box I came up against the
limits of my C as well as my Unix knowledge. The thing
had built okay under Perl 5.6 on the old AIX system.
The only co-worker within reach who seems to know more
C than I do had no clue either.

I have put the error messages and excerpt from the
source file in question at
http://cpacker.org/aa.txt

The only thing that looks odd to me in perlio.h on the
error lines is "pTHX_" -- which isn't followed by a comma.
Looking around for what it might be, I see there are these
lines in perl.h in the same directory:

# define pTHX_ pTHX,
which is preceded a few lines back by

# define pTHX register PerlInterpreter *my_perl PERL_UNUSED_DECL
which is REALLY out of my league...

Interpretation welcomed.

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