[ale] OT: Perl and VERY large files

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Rose <jojerose at mindspring.com> writes:

[...]


    Jeff> 'Value too large for defined data type at <name of script>
    Jeff> line <number>'

Erm, double check the error message, both the content and what's
really generating it.  I don't see that error message in either
perldoc perldiag (which has exteneded explanations of every error or
warning perl itself produces) or anything in the 5.8.0 source tree.


lemur:~/tmp/src/perl/perl 612> grep 'defined data type' **/*(.)  < 1 > 18:13:25
lemur:~/tmp/src/perl/perl 613>                                   < 1 > 18:13:31


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