Well, I tried compiling perl 5.8.2, and it seems this must be caused by
something within the system. I'm running NetBSD 1.5.2, and even with the
latest version of perl, I still get:

ahs@hogrelius:~> perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
0

Perhaps one should look for the cause within the compiler or the math
library? I compiled perl using gcc 2.95.3.


Anders

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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:29:03PM +0100, Anders Hogrelius wrote:
>
> => I tried updating to perl-5.6.1nb9, and although perl doesn't crash, it
> => still behaves weird... I haven't compiled 5.8.2 yet though...
> =>
> => ahs@hogrelius:~> perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
> => 0
>
> FWIW, this is what I get using Perl 5.8.1 built from pkgsrc under
> 1.6ZC-CURRENT:
>
> >>>>>
> $ perl -e 'print exp(0 - 736.285624221884), "\n";'
> 1.7188543818817e-320
<snip>