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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
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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...


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