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Re: PR pkg/28498



On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:21:15AM +0200, Staffan Thomén wrote:
> Hi, the hack for this problem has been noted as fixed for perl 5.10, but in
> pkgsrc-2010Q3, it's still there... Perhaps someone should think of us alpha
> owners and remove the hack.
> 
> This caused me some nasty issues where simply passing '-1*(100**1000)' to perl
> would produce a SIGFPE, and that's not very good when a lot of modules use the
> above to get negative infinity. Compiling perl with -mieee fixes this.

Removed and pullup requested.
 Thomas


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