Re^4: Supporting 64-bit ints on 32-bit perl

Yeah, actually the biggest driver for this is cpan testers :-) My error message is "Author is lazy and requires 64-bit perl integers". But there's no way I know to exclude the 32-bit perls, and then I get those pesky failures on my testers matrix. And then I was thinking "Maybe I could try not being lazy and actually make it work on 32-bit perls?"

This is in fact the same reason I fixed ELF::Writer to support 32-bit perls and perls before 5.10, but yes I know I could just declare a minimum perl version and not need to see errors on 5.8 related to pack('Q<'). But I already implemented the workaround for pack('Q<'), so seems a shame to not keep using it.

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Re^5: Supporting 64-bit ints on 32-bit perl by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 20, 2023 at 02:56 UTC
But there's no way I know to exclude the 32-bit perls You would just want your CPU-x86_64-InstructionWriter-0.002 Makefile.PL to begin with: `use strict; use warnings; use 5.010000; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; if($Config::Config{ivsize} != 8) { warn "This module requires 64-bit integers"; exit 0; } # existing code then follows, unaltered.` [download] I don't know how you achieve that alteration using Dist::Zilla to generate your Makefile.PL, but cpantesters would then report your module as "NA" instead of "FAIL". Anyway, adding support for 32-bit integers might be a more interesting exercise ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Supporting 64-bit ints on 32-bit perl
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 20, 2023 at 02:56 UTC

But there's no way I know to exclude the 32-bit perls

use strict;
use warnings;

use 5.010000;

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

if($Config::Config{ivsize} != 8) {
  warn "This module requires 64-bit integers";
  exit 0;
}

# existing code then follows, unaltered.
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