in reply to Integer overflow question

may be you need following:
use Config; print $Config{intsize};
?

In this case do perldoc Config

Best regards,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re^2: Integer overflow question
by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 03, 2005 at 15:47 UTC

    Similarly, you might check out POSIX, which provides an interface to various system constants.

    -xdg

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