demos/perl ~0 versus ULONG_MAX

Kevin Ryde user42 at zip.com.au
Wed Dec 31 07:48:46 CET 2003


Sisyphus <kalinabears at iinet.net.au> writes:
>
> I don't see that you're under any obligation to document perl bugs
> pertaining to old (no longer maintained) perl code.

No, it's not a perl bug, I wrote that ULONG_MAX and ~0 are the same,
which is not so in old perl (it was 32-bits even on a 64-bit system).


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