[Bug 168373] New: perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

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Summary: perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386
           Product: Fedora Core
           Version: devel
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: normal
         Component: perl
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Description of problem:
perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.7-0.3.fc5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install perl
2. perl -e 'printf ("%x", 99999999999999)'

Actual results:
ffffffff

Expected results:
5af3107a3fff

Additional info:
> From the INSTALL manual:

"The use64bitint option does only as much as is required to get 64-bit integers
into Perl (this may mean, for example, using "long longs") while your memory may
still be limited to 2 gigabytes (because your pointers could still be 32-bit).
Note that the name 64bitint does not imply that your C compiler will be using
64-bit ints (it might, but it doesn't have to). The use64bitint simply means
that you will be able to have 64 bit-wide scalar values."

http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.6/INSTALL#Run_Configure

At least I need 64bit ints for some internal applications that needs to run on
both x86_64 and i386.

[Bug 168373] perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

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Summary: perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168373

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2005-10-17 22:55 EST -------
Hey Chip (or anyone else), what is your recommendation for this to go into
rawhide?  I don't know anything about the ramifications of what this would cause.

[Bug 168373] perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

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Summary: perl is compiled without 64bit int on i386

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168373

[e-mail] changed:

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             Status|NEEDINFO                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2005-11-01 19:25 EST -------
When you are running perl on a 64-bit machine, and have installed the 64-bit
architecture version, ie. on x86_64, perl-*.x86_64.rpm, not perl-*i386.rpm, 
then you do get 64-bit integers by default:
e.g. on an x86_64, with perl*.x86_64
$ rpm -q perl --qf '%{ARCH}\n'
x86_64
$ perl -e 'print ( 1 <<32, "\n" );'
4294967296

The 64bitint feature is meant to provide support for 64bit integers on 32 bit
platforms, and has been associated with severe problems in the past.

Using 64-bit integer emulation on 32-bit platforms would incur a heavy 
performance penalty for ALL applications, even those that make no use
of 33+bit integers.

It is also made redundant by use of the 'use bigint' pragma, which you can
specify on the command line with -Mbigint, or in the environment of for your
perl scripts on 32-bit platforms with the environment variable setting
 PERL5OPT=-Mbigint 
e.g, on an i386 machine:
$ rpm -q perl --qf '%{ARCH}\n'
i386
$ perl -e 'print ( 1<<32, "\n");'
1
$ PERL5OPT=-Mbigint perl -e 'print ( 1<<32, "\n");'
4294967296

Since there are many workarounds, and we don't want to incur a performance
penalty for all perl scripts, and there have been problems with -D64bitint,
I don't think we should enable this feature unless absolutely required - sorry.