Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On another topic, just below add_duration in DateTime.pm, I see this: > > use constant INFINITY => 100 ** 100 ** 100 ; > use constant NEG_INFINITY => -1 * (100 ** 100 ** 100); > > I remember this (how to produce an numeric infinity) coming up on > perl5-porters and seem to recall that the above just coredumps on some > platforms.
There is something here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1395647 On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:49:54PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > It seems that '2**10000' produces zero with gcc 3.2.1 in Tru64 5.1A, > which is of course a bug to itself, but at least this pack.t test [more] - Flavio S. Glock
