Bug #77457 for Scalar-List-Utils: overloaded numeric types

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A thousand pardons, I lept to a wrong conclusion. But what I think I've got is: With recent i386 debian 5.14.3 with IV=UV=8byte longlong and NV=8byte double, the program foo.pl below prints 18446744073709551600 18446744073709551601 where I expected the two min() returns to be the same, the smaller value, 18446744073709551600 18446744073709551600 This latter is given by the commented-out $TESTING_PERL_ONLY. I wonder if UV has rounded-off stored to "NV retval". I see perl's pp_lt() has cases for UV,IV and RV to preserve the range when int bigger than float. I suppose that happens on alpha and maybe other 64-bit systems even without the recent UV=longlong bloat. Perhaps min() and max() could do the same as pp_lt, or call it, to preserve integer range.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # BEGIN { $List::Util::TESTING_PERL_ONLY = 1 } use List::Util 'min'; my $x = ~0 - 15; my $y = ~0 - 14; print min($x,$y),"\n"; print min($y,$x),"\n";

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