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in reply to Re: Re: No Worries. Rh7.3 - 5.6.1nothread, 5.8.0ithreads
in thread Can't undef active subroutine during global destruction in threaded 5.8.0

Long doubles, I believe. It lets your scalars hold up to somewhere in the range of 10**1700.

-BronzeWing

Update: Hmm. I don't know where I got 10**1700, but I just compiled perl 5.8.0 for i686-linux-thread-multi-ld and it actually gets up to 10**4931 before it gives up and turns into 'inf'.