in reply to Re: perl 5.14.0-RC1 is available for testing!
in thread perl 5.14.0-RC1 is available for testing!

I cannot reproduce you finding here on 5.14 built for Vista 64-bit:

C:\test\perl-5.14.0-RC1>.\perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 0) configuration +: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.0, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread uname='' config_args='undef' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=und +ef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -Ox -GL -fp:pr +ecise - optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -Ox -GL -fp:precise', cppflags='-DWIN32' ccversion='15.00.21022.08', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='__int64', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__in +t64', l alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -lt +cg -li libpth=\lib libs=oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib +comdlg3 perllibs=oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.l +ib com libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl514.lib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt: +ref,icf Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PL_OP_SLAB +_ALLOC USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Locally applied patches: RC1 Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Apr 21 2011 08:07:59 @INC: C:/test/perl-5.14.0-RC1/lib . C:\test\perl-5.14.0-RC1>.\perl.exe -E"print pack 'Q', 1 " ☺ C:\test\perl-5.14.0-RC1>.\perl.exe -E"print length pack 'Q', 1 " 8

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