Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: Heribert Dahms To: "'Tels'" , tphan@iqrinc.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin Perl and Module Math::BigInt Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:52:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Hi Tels, I don't speak Perl, but in C that would overflow the temporary expression calculated before it is passed as an argument to new()! Try: my $num = Math::BigInt->new(-1 * (1<<24)) * Math::BigInt->new(1<<24); Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tels [SMTP:perl_dummy@bloodgate.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 19:35 > To: tphan@iqrinc.com > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Cygwin Perl and Module Math::BigInt > [Heribert] [snip] > >my $num = Math::BigInt->new(-1 * (1<<24) * (1<<24)); > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/