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Looked at the XS code in Storable module, found that it fails because sizeof(double) is compared with sizeof(long double)

This sounds like a compilation or configuration error to me.

As far as I am aware, the format of perl's native doubles didn't change between versions 5.8.x and 5.10.x. They remain 64-bit IEEE 754 format not the 80-bit long double format. I believe this is also true on 64-bit builds.

Did you build your 5.10 perl yourself? If so, it may be that all you need to do is reconfigure and rebuild to fix the problem.

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by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Jan 07, 2011 at 20:51 UTC
    it may be that all you need to do is reconfigure and rebuild to fix the problem.

    Yes, it's a configuration option: -Duselongdouble  (or -Uuselongdouble to explicitly undefine/disable).

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      If it is configurable, Storable ought to be able to handle both and the conversion between the two.

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