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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-02-22 10:24:13 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-02-22 10:24:13 +0000
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parent87b718577ff6cdca0223546e3d763cdc43aa9c70 (diff)
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integrate cfgperl contents into mainline, update Changes
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@@ -650,7 +650,8 @@ Unfortunately bit arithmetics (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>) for numbers are not
64-bit clean, they are explictly forced to be 32-bit because of
tangled backward compatibility issues. This limitation is subject to
change. Bit arithmetics for bit vector scalars (created by vec()) are
-not limited in their width.
+not limited in their width, you can use the & | ^ ~ operators on such
+scalars.
Last but not least: note that due to Perl's habit of always using
floating point numbers the quads are still not true integers.