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From: "William S Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If I have an unsigned long long number in Perl:
$num = 9234567890121111113;
print "num from perl: " . $num;
On a 32 bit Linux system I get:
num from perl: 2.34567890121111e+17
and in C code, I have:
SV* obj;
...
const char *nptr = SvPV(obj, PL_na);
then displaying nptr, I also get the scientific representation in the
string. This means I cannot use strtoull to convert to an unsigned long
long. Any portable solutions for extracting the unsigned long long number?
But if you do:
$num = "9234567890121111113";
and then pass $num to the XSub, you should find that nptr contains the
string "9234567890121111113" which you *can* convert using strtoull.
Going the other way, unsigned long longs would also be returned from the
XSub to perl as a *string*.
I'm not sure that this achieves anything in the way of portability, however
...
Cheers,
Rob
