On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> > Subject says it all. Can it be done? I need some way to push a packet
> > count value into a Perl scalar, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> > push a long long (which is typedef'd as a Quad/UQuad) into a scalar at
> > all. I know this has been discussed before, but I never really saw any
> > real solution to the problem. Should I just sprintf/asprintf it and push
> > it in as a string? Since it will get converted on the fly into an
> > integer...
>
> I would store it as an 'NV' (double). Since it starts off as an integer
> value there won't be any loss of precision for the round-trip.
That, alas, just isn't true. If your NV is 64 bits, as most are if you
have 32 bit ints, then you've only got about 53 bits of integer, give or
take a bit. (Literally :) They just aren't big enough.
Dan
