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From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Perl's newSViv() versus 64-bit ints?
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In response to Perl's newSViv() versus 64-bit ints?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 03/11/2016 06:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Anybody know what will happen when passing a uint64 to newSViv()?
>
>             


A perl IV is guaranteed large enough to hold a pointer, if that's any 
help. But for an unsigned value you might be better off calling newSVuv()

cheers

andrew

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