# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #30896] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30896 >
$ cat big.pasm new P0, .BigInt set P0, 18446744073709551615 print P0 print "\n" end $ ./parrot ~/big.pasm 9223372036854775807 $ This on a 64-bit system (tru64 alpha), substitute 4294967295 for the 18446744073709551615 in a 32-bit system. I don't right now have a parrot compiled on a 32-bit system with bigints available so I can't check whether the same thing happens there. I don't know off-hand what would be The Right Thing here (I'm guessing that a signed long is used to hold the parsed constant, and that's why the "unsigned" constant overflows) -- but silent lossage / corruption of the PASM's intent is clearly not a right thing to do. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
