Craig A. Berry wrote:
At 12:54 AM +0200 10/28/04, Abe Timmerman wrote:
Op een grimmige herfstdag (Wednesday 27 October 2004 08:09),schreef Craig A. Berry:
IIRC, Math::BigInt uses doubles to store chunks of big integers. The default floating point format on VAX is extremely limited in exponent range and probably breaks all sorts of assumptions. You might be able to get these to go away by configuring with -"Duser_c_flags=/FLOAT=G_FLOAT". I think I want to change the default to that for 5.10, but not in a maintenance release. The default for Alpha and Itanium is already to use IEEE floating point.
I'll try that as a common config option and see how that works (do we need to document that?)
That worked!
I believe it is documented in README.vms.
Yes it is (if you know about F_FLOAT, D_FLOAT, G_FLOAT...). (I can't get used to the fact that README.vms is not perlvms.pod)
Could we please have a "distclean" target to bring the source-tree back into its original state (I'm getting used to "realclean", but that target is different on other platforms)
No objection here, but I will need to educate myself on what the difference is and then find a round tuit to fit it in.
I believe 'realclean' doesn't remove Makefile and config.sh (and the like).
Thanks again + Good luck,
Abe
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