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The module's tests fail on a number of platforms. I suspect it has to do with unpack and byteorder. However, I don't have access to any of the architectures for which the tests FAIL, so this is pure speculation. The tests that fail are primarily of the kind that read a number and unpack it, but the resulting number isn't what was expected (edited for brevity): 

# +----+------------------------+---------+
# | Elt|Got                     |Expected |
# +----+------------------------+---------+
# *   1| 1.12884118761808e-319  | 100     *
# *   2| 3.03865194161742e-319  | 1       *
# *   6| 1.30222857005357e-314  | 1251997 *
# +----+------------------------+---------+

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It looks like the tests that FAIL contain 
byteorder=4321
byteorder=87654321

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while the tests that PASS contain 
byteorder=1234
byteorder=12345678

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The following unpack templates are used: 
return unpack 'C*', $buffer;         # bytes
return unpack 'C*', reverse $buffer; # int
return unpack 'C*', reverse $buffer; # long
return unpack 'd*', reverse $buffer; # float
return unpack 's*', reverse $buffer; # short

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Is it the case that the byte order is the source of the failing tests? How do I make the module work on all platforms?
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Andreas

In reply to unpack and byteorder - tests fail on certain platforms by andreas1234567

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