On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:25:37PM +0200, alian wrote: > >>I can give you ssh access to this/my host/lan if you want. You will > >>find a sparc linux on Debian too :-) > >>http://62.212.98.196:8080/mrtg/ > > > > oooh. and the sparc openbsd machine. > > Yep. The-machine-who-hang-one-smoke-on-15-and-I-don't-know-why. > > > Nice. :-) > > > > So you'd be seeing 0.5 as the output from ./perl -le 'print int > (2**52)' ? > > > > If so, I think we have our troublemaker here. And I was tempted to think > > that it was actually the ** operator, as pp_pow has been tweaked. > > I really don't know what is it. Only one thing: this is something > between @19201 and @19254. Period of configure/perl.h update for modfl & co. I'm afraid that I couldn't work out how to make the test smoke viewer at http://cpanplus.keradel.com/cgi-bin/smoke_db.cgi tell me this information, but it seems that the last pass was at 19174: http://www.mail-archive.com/daily-build-reports@perl.org/msg03908.html And the first recorded fail at 19622: http://www.mail-archive.com/daily-build-reports@perl.org/msg03668.html I suspect that the culprit is this patch: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=19218 which rearranges the innards of pp_int Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next