On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > 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.
Ugh. Yes, of course you are correct. Not sure what I was smoking when I posted that suggestion. 32-bit unsigned, yes. 64-bit unsigned, no. I suppose that stringifying it is as sound an approach as any. Steve (Think twice, post once.. Think twice, post once..)
