I have been using it all these years and have never seen a bug.

Assignment of floating point values will often be buggy in your perl.
I expect you'll (eg) be seeing: 
>perl -le "$d = 1180591620717411303424.0; print unpack ('H*', reverse(
+pack('d', $d)));"
444fffffffffffff

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But the wrong value is being assigned to $d, and the correct result is 4450000000000000

This wasn't fixed until perl-5.30, IIRC.
I can see it going back as far as 5.10.0, but I don't go back to perl-5.8.x.
(It's not specific to Windows.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: Does anyone use Perl on Windows? by syphilis
in thread Does anyone use Perl on Windows? by stevieb

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