in reply to Re^2: Decimal precision issue: Windows vs. Unix
in thread Decimal precision issue: Windows vs. Unix

No, I'm not aware of it using long doubles. perl -V gives:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-92.1.10.el5, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
....
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
....
which suggests to me that it's using ordinary 8 byte doubles.

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Re^4: Decimal precision issue: Windows vs. Unix
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 10, 2009 at 07:44 UTC
    longdblsize=16
      nvsize=8