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On Sun Jan 26 15:35:58 2014, tonyc wrote: > On Mon Jan 20 11:10:02 2014, bulk88 wrote: > > Some fixes in the patch. Clearer notes about the limitations of VC6 > > and 64 bit IVs. 1 cmp_version fix. > > I don't think this change belongs in perl. > > It's working around a fairly severe breakage in a compiler for which > is no longer supported by the vendor and for which free alternatives > are available (MSVC as bundled with the platform SDK). > > Even if applied, this would be a ghetto in that any CPAN XS that > (correctly!) expects to convert UV to NV implicitly will fail to > build, with the side effect that the user might blame the CPAN author > instead of their broken tools. Per this, I'm rejecting this patch, thanks for submitting it though. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121029