Do you have some doubts that that is correct?

Well ... the 'perl -V' that I was looking at is for a (Debian/testing) Linux/x86_64 machine. I expected that 'intsize' would also be 8, but it's only 4. That made me wonder about the reliability of what %Config was telling me in this regard.

Anyway, I gather from the tone of your response, that this info is reliable - which is what I needed to know. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

(I don't believe there's any reason that an int and a long have to be the same size ... it's just that I didn't expect them to be different ... and that's what raised the doubt in my mind :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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