On 20/09/10 12:20, David Golden wrote:
The culprit appears to be this:cpan[2]> ! printf "%g\n", 0 + (1< 0) 3.33761e-308 The code is doing something equivalent -- though I'm not sure why. But perl is adding 0 + 0 and getting 3.34e-308 when it numifies it. That seems like a bug in perl on that platform. If you run that from the command line, do you get the same thing? $ perl -e 'printf "%g\n", 0 + (1< 0)'
$ perl -e 'printf "%f\n", 0 + (1 < 0)' 0.000000 $ perl -e 'printf "%g\n", 0 + (1 < 0)' 3.33761e-308 $ -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Adjudicator, Band Trainer, Composer, Tutor, Typesetter. NJH Music, ICQ#20252325, twitter: @nigelhorne n...@bandsman.co.uk http://www.bandsman.co.uk
