Re^6: [OT] Endianness and extended precision (80-bit) long doubles

... I have no idea what the difference in text color means.

I strongly suspect this is just a documentation bug. As I wrote here, the red/italic rendering appears at a certain line and continues to the end of the table. The template operators (symbols?) (update: specifiers?) so highlighted include ancient x X @ operators. This highlighting is present even in the earliest on-line documentation: 5.6.0!

Update: The red/italic highlighting always appears at the line

d A double-precision float in the native format.

even though the layout of the template specifier table changes over documentation versions so that the number of this line changes: line 46 in 5.6.0; line 41 in 5.30.0. (Update: I also don't see any note in the documentation assigning any special meaning to red and/or italic highlighting.)

Give a man a fish: <%-{-{-{-<

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Re^7: [OT] Endianness and extended precision (80-bit) long doubles by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 28, 2019 at 16:00 UTC
Interestingly, the competing documentation renderer shows no such problems: pack on perldoc.pl. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]