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This would leave "x86" architecture as the only common thing. My "weird" Perls are running under 32-bit Windows x86 (Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz). You are seeing this under 64-bit Linux (AMD?).

But the HP-UX machine also is a 64-bit x86 machine (Intel Xenon Server CPUs), and it doesn't exhibit the problematic behaviour.

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Re^4: Pass by ref vs alias : why does scalar size matter?
by alexm (Chaplain) on May 02, 2008 at 12:31 UTC

    Same (clinton's) results here on a MacMini running Ubuntu, so it doesn't seem a processor specific issue:

    This is perl, v5.8.8 built for powerpc-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Re^4: Pass by ref vs alias : why does scalar size matter?
by clinton (Priest) on May 02, 2008 at 12:08 UTC
    It's an Intel core duo, but yes: AMD like