I tried updating to perl-5.6.1nb9, and although perl doesn't crash, it
still behaves weird... I haven't compiled 5.8.2 yet though...

ahs@hogrelius:~> perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
0



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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Torsten Harenberg wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Rhialto wrote:
>
> > I now have perl-5.6.1nb9 and indeed it fixes the problem. Indeed it
> > strange since none of the patches appears to be related to this issue,
> > on a casual glance.
>
> I tried on an alpha running OSF1 V4.0 with a very old perl 5.000, and got
> this:
>
> > /usr/local/bin/perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
> 0
> > uname -a
> OSF1 XXXXXX.physik.uni-wuppertal.de V4.0 1229 alpha
>
> May try to upgrade to the "buggy" perl version there to see if it's perl
> or the perl<->NetBSD interaction.
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Torsten
>
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