Op een grimmige herfstdag (Friday 29 October 2004 22:00),schreef Craig A.
Berry:
> 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
Okay, that got rid of the Math::BigInt failures.
> > (do we need
> > to document that?)
>
> I believe it is documented in README.vms.
Yes it is, sorry.
> >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.
I believe 'distclean' also removes things like 'config.sh' and 'Makefile'.
thanks again +
Good luck,
Abe
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