How can I get Inline::C to deal with big number?

[Edward Wijaya]

Hi,

I have the following code that uses Inline::C to compute factorial.
The problem is that whenever I use large N (>30) it began to return "INF".

I thougtht my C implementation already cater large number by using "float"?
Additionally I have already added Math::Pari as an attempt to solve
the problem, but again no avail.

Can anybody suggest what's the way to deal with this?

Here is my complete code:

#----------Beginning of my code ---------------

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Inline C;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Math::Pari qw/ :int/;

my $n = factrl(30);  # it fails if I try factrl(40)
print "$n\n"

__END__
 __C__

#include <stdio.h>

float factrl(int n)
{
  float gammln(float xx);
  void nerror(char error_text[]);
  static int ntop=4;
  static float a[33]={1.0,1.0,2.0,6.0,24.0};
  int j;

  if (n<0) nerror("Negative factorial in routine factrl");
  if (n>32) return exp(gammln(n+1.0));

  while (ntop<n){
    j = ntop++;
    a[ntop]=a[j]*ntop;
  }

  return a[n];

}

float gammln(float xx)
{
  double x,y, tmp,ser;
  static double cof[6] = {76.18009172947146, -86.50532032941677,
                          24.01409824083091, -1.231739572450155,
                          0.12086509738661e-2, -0.5395239384953e-5};
  int j;

  y = x = xx;
  tmp= x+5.5;
  tmp -= (x+0.5)*log(tmp);
  ser=1.000000000190015;

  for (j=0;j<=5;j++) ser += cof[j]/++y;
  return -tmp+log(2.5066282746310005*ser/x);
}

#-----End of My Code--------------

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Edward WIJAYA
Singapore

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