Bug#723021: libstring-koremutake-perl: Does not handle large numbers

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> "use bigint;" suffices to solve the issue:
> 
> perl -Mbigint -MString::Koremutake -le '...'
[...]
> Despite this should be fixed upstream (see RT bug report), I think we
> can solve this in the package easily and don't have to wait for
> upstream.
> 
> I'll likely take care of it soon.

While thinking about it, I'm no more sure if this really should go
into the package and "use bigint;" should rather be at the
responsibility of the programmer using the package as it suffices to
call "use bigint;" outside the package anyway.

At least for my short test I didn't notice any performance impacts,
but then again I didn't test it with a large number of calls to have
statistically significant data.

Any comments?

		Regards, Axel
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