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

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