Here is the bisect: HEAD is now at 0e25d86 vax-netbsd: do not tempt fp overflow, which will SIGFPE bad - non-zero exit from sh -c cd t && ./perl TEST \.\.\/dist\/Carp\/t\/arg_string\.t 0e25d864d83173c105cdabb68813b14c94bae966 is the first bad commit commit 0e25d864d83173c105cdabb68813b14c94bae966 Author: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> Date: Fri Oct 21 09:05:25 2016 -0400 vax-netbsd: do not tempt fp overflow, which will SIGFPE The 3e100 seems to have no special meaning, except being in floating point. :040000 040000 f9f6d9eb328f42f4573a324789155e44f5f23e6e 5585ec7f232fb5471a6de76756fd3588dbcdd489 M dist bisect run success That took 424 seconds. Which modified the above test to change from a 3-digit exponent to a 2-digit exponent, and to significantly shorten it. I'd be happy to provide a patch to add an optional leading zero to the test, but I don't know how to handle the issue of Linux trying to print the value as a 37 digit integer. What's the correct behavior here? -- Respectfully, Dan CollinsThread Previous | Thread Next