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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 1995 20:18:44 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Subject:   Re: PERL4&5 broken in -current and 950322-SNAP!
Message-ID:  <199504061018.UAA16925@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>    The first loop prints out a "0." instead of a "0".  This anomaly
>also caused gcc to fail when compiling the extension modules (because
>perl was generating array subscripts with 0. instead of 0).  Anyone
>have a gcc 2.6.2/pre-950322 machine to test this?

The C printf function used to print "0" in some cases when it should
have printed "0.".  Apparently perl's tests expect the broken behaviour.

Bruce



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