> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Mar 06 02:33:55 2000]:
>
> Running following program causes "Floating point exception" on
> FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE *and* 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Feb 29 02:11:52 AST 2000
> (but not on Linux "2.3.44 #12 SMP") (all 5.00503)
>
> ===8<======8<======8<======8<====
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> my $packed = "\0\0\xc0\x7f";
> print STDERR "len: ", length($packed), " bytes: ", unpack("H*",
> $packed), "\n";
> my $float = unpack("f", $packed);
> print STDERR "float done\n";
> print STDERR "float: $float\n";
>
> exit 0;
> ===8<======8<======8<======8<====
> hayek$ ./moo.pl
> len: 4 bytes: 0000c07f
> float done
> Floating point exception
> hayek$ echo $?
> 136
> hayek$
> ===8<======8<======8<======8<====
Anyone have a FreeBSD machine handy with a recent Perl on it to try this
out?
