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On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:14:48 -0700, "Lourdes Peña Castillo" (via RT)
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I run the following code in perl v5.8.8 built for
> x86_64-linux-thread-multi, l get the error "Can't take log of 0 at - line
> 1."
>
> perl
> print log(2.5e-310)/log(10);
> ^D
I see the same for 5.10 on 32bit and 64bit
> But if I run it in perl v5.8.7 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi, I get
> the answer -309.602059991328.
>
> Is this a known issue with perl 5.8.8. for 64bits? Thanks!
Don't know if it is a known issue, but it is probably not (yet) fixed
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