At 12:54 AM +0200 10/28/04, Abe Timmerman wrote: >Op een grimmige herfstdag (Wednesday 27 October 2004 08:09),schreef Craig A. >Berry:
> > IIRC, Math::BigInt uses doubles to store chunks of big integers. The >> default floating point format on VAX is extremely limited in exponent >> range and probably breaks all sorts of assumptions. You might be >> able to get these to go away by configuring with >> -"Duser_c_flags=/FLOAT=G_FLOAT". I think I want to change the >> default to that for 5.10, but not in a maintenance release. The >> default for Alpha and Itanium is already to use IEEE floating point. > >I'll try that as a common config option and see how that works (do we need to >document that?) I believe it is documented in README.vms. >Could we please have a "distclean" target to bring the source-tree back into >its original state (I'm getting used to "realclean", but that target is >different on other platforms) No objection here, but I will need to educate myself on what the difference is and then find a round tuit to fit it in. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
