[Pdx-pm] 2038 patch for perl

Joshua Hoblitt jhoblitt at ifa.hawaii.edu
Fri Sep 12 14:26:47 PDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:20:44PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Come to think of it, it's odd that SvIV's upgrade to float not to a 64 bit int
> first, which can hold more.

Along that same line, it's odd that integer overflows aren't trapped and that
we don't automatically upgrade to Math::BigInts. ;)

-J

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