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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl level 41 Fails lib bigint test.  Test Case included.
Message-ID: <10434@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 Nov 90 00:30:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.192134.15095@millipore.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Nov16.192134.15095@millipore.com> blu@millipore.com (Brian Utterback) writes:
: As has already been noted, perl level 41 fails the test.  There seems to be
: a problem with the cmp operator and possibly the || op as well.

Yes, cmp was assuming that memcmp returned -1, 0 or 1 when it's not
documented to do so.  >>patch42.

The || behavior is correct.  $a || $b || $c will return the first true value.

Larry