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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Perl: random errors Date: 9 Nov 1993 21:25:26 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2bp1s6$imv@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2bio9sEeg8@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Nov8.095130.2796@maenor.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <1993Nov8.095130.2796@maenor.apana.org.au>, Giles Lean <giles@maenor.apana.org.au> wrote: > >I found this too. I also found that the math emulation is not working >on netsbd-0.9. (Both Intel 486SX and Cyrix chips.) Since perl >uses doubles for all numeric work things break. > >Since I've been reading this group I've not seen a mention of the problem; >a friend muttered that perhaps it had been fixed in netbsd-current. The only problem I had with it on my generic 0.9 system is the dbm test failed, which was due to the perl test looking for the wrong filenamed. Apart from that, I had NO problems whatsoever. However, I'm running a true 486/DX2 processor with the floating point stuff... TOodlepiP! Marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--