Here is the output from perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE
-DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=4
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release
-libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth="C:\Perl\lib\CORE"
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib
uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib
uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl56.lib
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release
-libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 626
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at May 2 2001 01:31:15
%ENV:
PERLDB_OPTS="RemotePort=127.0.0.1:2000"
@INC:
C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib
.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:thgibbs@;deltafarms.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:37 PM
To: Goodman Kristi - kgoodm; 'Robert Citek'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Large numbers
Can you run perl -V and send the results to the list. It may be that you
didn't compile with USE_LARGE_FILES. Are you using ActiveState perl?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goodman Kristi - kgoodm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Robert Citek'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: Large numbers
> I am running WIN2000 and perl 5.6.1
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Citek [mailto:rwcitek@;alum.calberkeley.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:02 AM
> To: Goodman Kristi - kgoodm
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Large numbers
>
>
>
> Hello Kristi,
>
> At 10:22 AM 10/24/2002 -0500, Goodman Kristi - kgoodm wrote:
> >Does anyone know why Perl has a hard time with large numbers and
sometimes
> >turns them into negative numbers? Sorry if I am not being specific
enough,
> >but really all I am doing is calculating the number of records in a file
> and
> >if it is a large number of records (lets say over a million) it will
return
> >a negative number for some reason.
>
> Could you please provide an example? Also on what operating system are
you
> using perl? What perl version ('perl -V')?
>
> For exampe, this piece of code works just find on Cygwin and Linux:
> perl -e '$a=100000000000000 ; $a++ ; print $a, "\n" ;
>
> You must agree that 1 + 10^14 (~100 Terabytes) is a pretty big number. I
> doubt you have a file that has that many records.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
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