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Tue Aug 26 08:48:57 2014 RURBAN [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: 5.6 fails the last sum.t IV precision test

skip sum IV precision test on older perls with 5.6 sum will still use NV, and looses 53-64bit precision fixed with https://github.com/Scalar-List-Utils/Scalar-List-Utils/pull/17 -- Reini Urban
Thu Aug 28 16:09:07 2014 DANAJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Aug 26 08:48:57 2014, RURBAN wrote:
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> skip sum IV precision test on older perls > with 5.6 sum will still use NV, and looses 53-64bit precision > > fixed with https://github.com/Scalar-List-Utils/Scalar-List-Utils/pull/17 >
It's possible to make 5.6 work using string conversion, but it's a big PITA and 5.6's 64-bit support is so broken that it doesn't seem worth all the trouble. So this patch seems reasonable to me.
Thu Aug 28 16:09:07 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
Mon Jul 20 21:17:04 2015 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Requestor KENTNL [...] cpan.org added

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