On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:00:35PM +0200, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: > Aloha, > > is there any way to reliably convert long longs (64bit integers) to SVs > (and back) on 32bit platforms without losing information, and without > compiling with -Duse64bitint? Both, IV and NV don't seem to provide > enough room to store large values.
Yes, they won't. If your conversion is fully managed by you, then you could convert them to and from strings using the appropriate C functions. If the values have to work in perl space, then I think you'll need to look at converting them to Math::BigInt objects. Nicholas Clark
