The second release candidate for Perl 5.8.0 is out. The full announcement is at:
<http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/5.8.0-RC2-anno> This should have non-IEEE floating point issues resolved as much as they can be, though more testing is a very good idea. If you try to represent numbers in D_FLOAT or G_FLOAT that cannot be represented, your program will die with a floating point exception just as it would in any other language. But at least now (I hope) Perl's internal number manipulations won't make you hit underflow or overflow conditions unnecessarily. Other remaining issues I'm aware of are: - openpid.t hangs on pre-6.0 VAX systems - abs2rel() is not completely reversible when the default directory contains a concealed device name Thanks to those who have invested their time in testing RC1. Now please do it all over again so we can make sure 5.8.0 is rock solid when it is released :-). -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
