Not a real problem for me, but by accidentally leaving a

use bigint;

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line in some code that was not needing it anymore, I found that it triggers an error that can be reproduced by trying one of the examples found in perldoc bigint itself, namely:

$ perl -Mbigint -le 'print log(2)'
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/5
+.8.8/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 1338.

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(I don't know if this is a possible bug in bigint itself or in Math::BigInt, and passing the 't' option to the former doesn't really help, see below)

$ perl -Mbigint=t -le 'print log(2)'                           MBI imp
+ort Math::BigInt::Trace :constant
MBI new '2' => '2' (Math::BigInt::Trace)
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/5
+.8.8/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 1338.

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Just thought this may be interesting. Tested with 5.8.8 under both Linux and Windows.

In reply to bug in bigint? by blazar

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