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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 2006-03-22 16:18:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-03-22 14:27:21 +0000 |
| commit | 9bf76a6a2fc16ab628a46452e34352d3e3d71674 (patch) | |
| tree | 907ce4bd3e80d259db72fa7f0348918be3d9fb7b /README.win32 | |
| parent | a90be0136120263e3a9bbc095158abaa7ae2eeb5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9bf76a6a2fc16ab628a46452e34352d3e3d71674.tar.gz | |
Re: [perl #38779] NAN's on Win32
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 066a6dc752..4815a32add 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -859,6 +859,12 @@ Thus, signals may work only for simple things like setting a flag variable in the handler. Using signals under this port should currently be considered unsupported. +Numeric comparisons involving "Not a Number" (NaN, an IEEE floating point +feature) will give incorrect results if you build with Visual C++ Version 6 +or earlier -- see I<Floating-Point Comparison> in +L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndeepc/html/deep05282002.asp> +for details. If possible, you should build using a later version of VC++. + Please send detailed descriptions of any problems and solutions that you may find to E<lt>F<perlbug@perl.org>E<gt>, along with the output produced by C<perl -V>. @@ -909,6 +915,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl). Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp). -Last updated: 30 September 2005 +Last updated: 22 March 2006 =cut |