On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:02:11PM -0500, David Robins wrote:
> Actually it looks like the problem is in assemble.pl's sub constant_table;
> even though $PConfig{numvalsize} is 12, $PConfig{packtype_n} is 'd' and
> pack('d',$n) uses 8 bytes. This is after hacking NUMVAL_SIZE to 12,
> though, which explains why it wasn't caught in config/auto/pack.pl.
> perldoc for pack shows no way to pack a native NV. Should assemble.pl be
> using packout.c via XS/Inline? If this is decided to be the way to go then
> I'd be glad to work on a patch to do it.
'D' will pack long doubles on perl 5.8.0 (and later) if the perl is built
with NVs as long doubles. (ie -Duselongdouble at Configure time)
The long vaunted plan to actually make everything that outputs bytecode use
one C library (with a perl interface) might be a better way to properly
solve this.
Nicholas Clark
