Hints for DC/OSx

Hints for DC/OSx

Subject: Re: Perl 5.003_28 is available

Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> This is our sixth (yes, _sixth_) beta candidate.  If I could give one
> piece of advice to any pumpkin holder, it would be:

Better late than never...

With the patch to hints/dcosx below 5.003_28 passes avarything
except test 9 of op/pack.  This seems to be a problem with
0xFFFFFFFF being treated as unsigned while
unpack("I",pack("I",0xFFFFFFFF) is signed.

./perl -e 'print 0xFFFFFFFF, "\n", unpack("I",pack("I",0xFFFFFFFF)),"\n";'
4294967295
-1

I'm assuming that gcvt is doing something strange.  Any suggestions/experiences?

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