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.

In reply to Re^4: Supporting 64-bit ints on 32-bit perl by NERDVANA
in thread Supporting 64-bit ints on 32-bit perl by NERDVANA

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