On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:05:20AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > The PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV stuff can lose a negative zero. > > $ perl -we'$x = -.0; $x *= 1.0; print $x' > 0 > $ perl -we'$x = -.0; $x *= 1.1; print $x' > -0 > > Should a negative zero never get IOK turned on?
I meant to show the non-assignment case, where the - is a driveby shooting victim: $ perl -we'$x = -.0; scalar($x * 1.0); print $x' 0 $ perl -we'$x = -.0; scalar($x * 1.1); print $x' -0
