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[ID 20000405.018] Data::Dumper and negative numbers
From:
Slaven Rezic
Date:
April 5, 2000 16:35
Subject:
[ID 20000405.018] Data::Dumper and negative numbers
Message ID:
200004052314.BAA20330@vran.herceg.de
This is a bug report for perl from eserte@vran.herceg.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
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The Data::Dumper output of negative numbers in FreeBSD's perl seems to
be incorrect.
Consider the following outputs:
/usr/perl5.00503/bin/perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Data::Dumper->Dump([-12])'
$VAR1 = -12;
/usr/perl5.6.0/bin/perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Data::Dumper->Dump([-12])'
$VAR1 = 4294967284;
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Flags:
category=library
severity=critical
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:
Configured by eserte at Wed Apr 5 22:54:41 CEST 2000.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=freebsd, osvers=3.4-stable, archname=i386-freebsd-64int
uname='freebsd vran.herceg.de 3.4-stable freebsd 3.4-stable #6: mon feb 14 02:34:10 cet 2000 eserte@vran.herceg.de:usrsrcsyscompilevran i386 '
config_args='-Dprefix=/usr/perl5.6.0 -de -D hintfile=myfreebsd'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', optimize='-O2 -m486', gccversion=2.7.2.3
cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc -lcrypt
libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
/usr/perl5.6.0/lib/5.6.0/i386-freebsd-64int
/usr/perl5.6.0/lib/5.6.0
/usr/perl5.6.0/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-freebsd-64int
/usr/perl5.6.0/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
/usr/perl5.6.0/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
HOME=/home/e/eserte
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/TeX/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/pilot/bin:/home/e/eserte/bin/FreeBSD:/home/e/eserte/bin/sh:/home/e/eserte/bin:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/games:/home/e/eserte/devel
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh