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You can "Configure -Dusemorebits" to turn on both the 64-bit support
and the long double support.
-Note that on some platforms (linux 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2, x86), libc 2.1.3)
-the gcc 3.1 compiler has been reported to refuse to compile the
-Time::Hires module when using -Dusemorebits or an equivalent setting.
-
=head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms
Executive summary: in Perl 5.8, you should use the default "PerlIO"