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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
June 21, 2002 09:47
Subject:
RC2 is out
Message ID:
a05111b0eb939011b1b12@[172.16.52.1]
The second release candidate for Perl 5.8.0 is out. The full
announcement is at:
<http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/5.8.0-RC2-anno>
This should have non-IEEE floating point issues resolved as much as
they can be, though more testing is a very good idea. If you try to
represent numbers in D_FLOAT or G_FLOAT that cannot be represented,
your program will die with a floating point exception just as it
would in any other language. But at least now (I hope) Perl's
internal number manipulations won't make you hit underflow or
overflow conditions unnecessarily.
Other remaining issues I'm aware of are:
- openpid.t hangs on pre-6.0 VAX systems
- abs2rel() is not completely reversible when the default directory
contains a concealed device name
Thanks to those who have invested their time in testing RC1. Now
please do it all over again so we can make sure 5.8.0 is rock solid
when it is released :-).
--
________________________________________
Craig A. Berry
mailto:craigberry@mac.com
"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
difficult than getting in."
Brad Leithauser
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