On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > A for loop in pp_pow is constructed in such a way that it squares the > base again even after it's iterated through all the bits of the > exponent. This could be a problem on any system where floating > overflow causes an exception; I noticed it with the D_FLOAT format on > OpenVMS Alpha, where it was causing Perl to blow up when running > p/op/pow.t. The patch below fixes it by exiting the loop as soon as > we know we can. > > If someone strongly objects to having this test inside the loop, I > can ifdef it.
Thanks, applied. At least in UNICOS this shouldn't be necessary, though, the Friday snapshot worked 100%. May affect VOS. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
