G'day Rob,

I'm not sure if this helps, but it seems to reproduce what you're describing on a different platform: Cygwin 3.2.0 on Win10. I kept most of your posted code as is; I added some info up front; and, I looped through all of the templates on both 5.32 and 5.34. 

$ cat pm_11133064_pack_test.pl
use warnings;

print "OS: $^O; Perl: $^V;\n",
    `perl -V:usequadmath`, `perl -V:nvtype`, "\n";

my @templates = qw{d d< d> D D< D>};

for $template (@templates) {
    print "TEMPLATE: $template\n";
    $nv = 2.4;
    $p = pack $template, $nv;
    $s = "'$p'";

    system $^X, '-wle', "print unpack('H*', $s);";
}

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$ perl pm_11133064_pack_test.pl
OS: cygwin; Perl: v5.32.0;
usequadmath='undef';
nvtype='double';

TEMPLATE: d
3333333333330340
TEMPLATE: d<
3333333333330340
TEMPLATE: d>
4003333333333333
TEMPLATE: D
Invalid type 'D' in pack at pm_11133064_pack_test.pl line 11.

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$ perl pm_11133064_pack_test.pl
OS: cygwin; Perl: v5.34.0;
usequadmath='undef';
nvtype='double';

TEMPLATE: d
3333333333330340
TEMPLATE: d<
3333333333330340
TEMPLATE: d>
4003333333333333
TEMPLATE: D
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
TEMPLATE: D<
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
TEMPLATE: D>
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

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— Ken

In reply to Re: pack() returns an unusable string by kcott
in thread pack() returns an unusable string by syphilis

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