You are talking about "weirdness", so what would be "normal" in your opinion.

I just find it weird that, on a platform where 64-bit positive integer values can be stored exactly, it is considered acceptable that all other integer values be rounded to 53 bits of precision.
I would find it quite acceptable if positive integer values greater than 64 bits were rounded to 64-bit (or greater) precision values, but cutting them back to 53-bit precision values seems a very poor alternative.
My gripe is not so much about how perl handles this configuration, but that this daft configuration is so widely used and accepted as valid. (I guess I should be grateful that the chosen default NV was the double precision one, and not the single precision float ;-)

Of course, people are free to accept whatever they like, and thankfully it's easy enough to find modules (or to use a sanely configured perl build) such that precision is not reduced to below-integer precision when the integer value overflows integer precision.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^7: Largest integer in 64-bit perl by syphilis
in thread Largest integer in 64-bit perl by harangzsolt33

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