in reply to perl arithmetic is killing me! HELP!

> What is going on here???

from sprintf :

> This is totally unacceptable!

RTFM? ;-p

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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update

have no 32 bit but this works for me: 

  DB<4> printf "\nLINE 1: 855638016 == %x", (0x34000000 + 0xFF000000) 
+& 0xFFFFFFFF;

LINE 1: 855638016 == 33000000
  DB<5>

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