64 Bit integer display
 

Hi All,

Can somebody give some ideas on how to display 64bit integer.

I tried,

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use bigint;

$test = 0x123456789abcdef;

print "$test \n";

But when i run:

Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff not portable

Thanks!

Re: 64 Bit integer display
 

Deepu <pradeep.bg@gmail.com> writes:

> Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff not portable

is that really the error you get? it works for every perl I've got on
linux that has bigint. (in my case, perls 5.8.5 ... 5.10 ) and I can't
find ANY reference to that error using google.

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Re: 64 Bit integer display
 

Quoth Deepu <pradeep.bg@gmail.com>:
>
> I tried,
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use bigint;
>
> $test = 0x123456789abcdef;
>
> print "$test \n";
>
> But when i run:
>
> Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff not portable

perldiag tells you this warning is in the 'portable' category. Since the
only warnings in this category are about integers greater than 2**32-1,
which you aren't interested in, simply turn them off:

use warnings;
use strict;

no warnings 'portable';
use bigint;

print 0x123456789abcdef;

At least on my perl (i386-freebsd-64int), I don't need 'bigint', since
despite being built for a 32-bit processor it can still use 64-bit
integers.

Ben