Re: perl problems

[Jerry Heyman <heymanj@acm.org>]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote:

> So we haven't managed to build any version of perl >= 5.10.
[ ... some errors deleted ... ]
> t/op/int.t
> | not ok 8 # int(4294967303.15) is -2147483648, not 4294967303
> | not ok 9 # int(4294967303.15) is -2147483648, not -4294967303
> | not ok 11 # int(4294967295.7) is -2147483648, not 4294967295
> | not ok 12 # int(4294967296.11312) is -2147483648, not 4294967296
> | not ok 13 # int(279964589018079/59) is -2147483648, not 4745162525730
> | not ok 14 # int(279964589018079/59) is -2147483648, not 4745162525730

This looks like a type mismatch.

-2147483648 is the definition of INT_MIN
-4294967303 is very close to the definition of UINT_MAX/ULONG_MAX 
(4294967295)

And the last two (13 and 14) are three orders of magnitude off.  Makes
me think that the 4745162525730 is some 64bit value.

I haven't played with perl 5.10 source, but might try to look around
to see something obvious.

> The last is what finally kills the buildds.
>
> Can anyone help out with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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