On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:00:46PM -0000, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> I have recently updated Perl to the 5.8.7 version and have been seeing
> some rather weird problem with it. Here's a snippet of code that uses
> the Net::IP module :
>
> use strict;
>
> use warnings;
>
>
> use Net::IP;
>
>
> my $ips = new Net::IP ("10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.254");
>
> do {
> print "IP: " . $ips->ip() . "\n";
> } while ($ips++);
>
> This is the documented method for looping through all the IPs in a
> range, and it works as expected with Perl 5.8.6. The '+' operator is
> actually overloaded by the Net::IP module and bound to the ip_add_num()
> method.
>
> However, this breaks with Perl 5.8.7 for some reason
I can confirm this behavior on FreeBSD.
The culprit appears to be Math::BigInt, since if I donwgrade
Math::BigInt to 1.75 (as opposed to bundled 1.77), everything works
fine.
\Anton.
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