On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Rhialto wrote:

> I now have perl-5.6.1nb9 and indeed it fixes the problem. Indeed it
> strange since none of the patches appears to be related to this issue,
> on a casual glance.

I tried on an alpha running OSF1 V4.0 with a very old perl 5.000, and got
this:

> /usr/local/bin/perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
0
> uname -a
OSF1 XXXXXX.physik.uni-wuppertal.de V4.0 1229 alpha

May try to upgrade to the "buggy" perl version there to see if it's perl
or the perl<->NetBSD interaction.

Cheers,

   Torsten

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