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Re: [ID 19991117.002] a bug in perl5 under Linux

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From:
Dominic Dunlop
Date:
November 18, 1999 03:52
Subject:
Re: [ID 19991117.002] a bug in perl5 under Linux
Message ID:
v03110704b4598751194b@[212.24.192.242]
At 20:59 +0100 1999-11-17, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> Alan Burlison writes:
> > > % perl
> > > print 8473018401 % 524288 , "\n"
> > > 33
>
> > $ perl
> > print 8473018401 % 524288 , "\n"
> > 524287
> >
> > Hmm.
>
> Well, you see: (unintentionally) insulting you is not my only function
> on p5p.

Fine, fine, but does anybody have any idea when and how the problem was
fixed, and whether the fix has yet been/can be applied in the maintenance
track?  A grep through _62 Changes for % and modulo sheds no light.  All
I've established is that the fix was in place by _57, the earliest
development version I have around.

--
Dominic Dunlop



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