in reply to @- Bug on the loose, lets isolate it

I've got yet another value:

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

This gives me a value of: -1208350152 with:

use strict; use warnings; my $string = "abc"; while( $string =~ /b/g ) { print $#-, "\n"; }

... as posted

Update: my perl -V is on my scratchpad