in reply to Re: "infinity" stringification problem in Perl 5.9.0
in thread "infinity" stringification problem in Perl 5.9.0

Thank you. I'll ask the user to try the upgrade. This is what I got from him:

> perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 9 subversion 0 patch 21025) +configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.23pre1, archname=i686-linux uname='linux dd 2.4.23pre1 #2 wed aug 27 11:20:37 pdt 2003 i686 ' config_args='-Dmksymlinks -Dinstallusrbinperl -Uversiononly -Dused +evel -Doptimize=-O3 -g -de -Dcf_email=xxx' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/i +nclude -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O3 -g', cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66.1 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1. +2 release)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +2 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=4 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc libc=/lib/libc.so.5.4.44, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl +.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynami +c' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING USE_LARGE_FILES Locally applied patches: DEVEL20173 Built under linux Compiled at Sep 3 2003 17:39:30 %ENV: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/home/dcd/.cpanplus/config" @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.9.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.9.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . > perl -V:d_Gconvert d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))';