| Subject: | BUG: Math::BigInt::FastCalc fails on as_bytes() conversion |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:06:30 -0500 |
| To: | bug-math-bigint-fastcalc [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Felipe Gasper <felipe [...] felipegasper.com> |
There are warnings spewed, and the result is wrong regardless.
It appears that FastCalc is doing “& 0xff” on the values--maybe something thinks they’re UTF-8?
Thanks for your time!
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NORMAL:
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> perl -MDevel::Peek -e'use Math::BigInt; Dump( Math::BigInt->from_hex("adf67d9812365dddebb")->as_bytes() )'
SV = PV(0x7fd5f9035610) at 0x7fd5f90d27c8
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
PV = 0x7fd5f8c420b0 "\n\337g\331\201#e\335\336\273"\0
CUR = 10
LEN = 16
COW_REFCNT = 0
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FASTCALC:
felipe@Macintosh-4 12:00:27 /cpanel
Show quoted text> perl -MDevel::Peek -e'use Math::BigInt try => "FastCalc"; Dump( Math::BigInt->from_hex("adf67d9812365dddebb")->as_bytes() )'
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.24/Math/BigInt/Lib.pm line 993.
SV = PV(0x7f8a92137d50) at 0x7f8a92125618
REFCNT = 1
FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
PV = 0x7f8a91cbf250 "\n\337g\331\220\30\200\240\310\300"\0
CUR = 10
LEN = 16
COW_REFCNT = 0