The platform-specific function can be autogenerated, if the build and runtime systems are the same, with the attached file. [It's not a patch because I'm clueless about the config system and have no idea where it would go.] --Andy
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-19 08:55:54 >>> # New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #30737] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30737 > in platform.c I see: int Parrot_signbit(double x) { union { double d; int i[2]; } u; u.d = x; #if PARROT_BIGENDIAN return u.i[0] < 0; #else return u.i[1] < 0; #endif } This is buggy. Even on an IEEE platform (which this seems to be assuming) there's no need for the two words of the double to be stored in the same endian-ness order as the bits within them. (Yes, arm historically has been mixed endian.) Nicholas Clark
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