From @masak

<moritz_> rakudo​: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
<p6eval> rakudo 06fe9a​: OUTPUT«Multiple Dispatch​: No suitable
candidate found for 'multiply_float', with signature 'PNP->P' [...]
<masak> I s'pose that's a known, reported bug?
<moritz_> no idea
<moritz_> don't think so
* masak submits it, then

From @coke

On Sat Apr 24 12​:55​:39 2010, masak wrote​:

<moritz_> rakudo​: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
<p6eval> rakudo 06fe9a​: OUTPUT«Multiple Dispatch​: No suitable
candidate found for 'multiply_float', with signature 'PNP->P' [...]
<masak> I s'pose that's a known, reported bug?
<moritz_> no idea
<moritz_> don't think so
* masak submits it, then

Behaves different in REPL/evalbot​:

$ ./perl6

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
3.14159265358979

but​:

22​:16 < [Coke]> rakudo​:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
22​:16 <+p6eval> rakudo 7f5c22​: ( no output )

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @coke

On Tue Jul 27 19​:17​:07 2010, coke wrote​:

On Sat Apr 24 12​:55​:39 2010, masak wrote​:

<moritz_> rakudo​: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
<p6eval> rakudo 06fe9a​: OUTPUT«Multiple Dispatch​: No suitable
candidate found for 'multiply_float', with signature 'PNP->P' [...]
<masak> I s'pose that's a known, reported bug?
<moritz_> no idea
<moritz_> don't think so
* masak submits it, then

Behaves different in REPL/evalbot​:

$ ./perl6

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
3.14159265358979

but​:

22​:16 < [Coke]> rakudo​:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0
22​:16 <+p6eval> rakudo 7f5c22​: ( no output )

oh, duh, need to print the value for the evalbot​:

22​:45 < [Coke]> rakudo​:
  3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0.perl.say
22​:45 <+p6eval> rakudo 7f5c22​: OUTPUT«3.14159265358979␤»

Per colomon++, this is functioning to spec. Assigning to him for spectesting. (virtually. he
doesn't have an account on RT, so assigning to moritz).

22​:47 < colomon> yes. the e0 at the end means it's a Num, which is
  machine-precision.
--
Will "Coke" Coleda

@moritz - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

From @kyleha

This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in at least one of these files​: misc/evalbot/lib/EvalbotExecuter.pm, t/spec/S02-literals/numeric.t

commit 624bf715b6698f6e3c6b722f02ae933502241eca
Author​: moritz <moritz@​c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64>
Date​: Fri Jul 30 18​:07​:55 2010 +0000

  [t/spec] test for RT #​74640, very long Num literals
 
  git-svn-id​: http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs@&#8203;31876 c213334d-75ef-0310-aa23-eaa082d1ae64

diff --git a/misc/evalbot/lib/EvalbotExecuter.pm b/misc/evalbot/lib/EvalbotExecuter.pm
index ea71c6d..c9960b4 100644
--- a/misc/evalbot/lib/EvalbotExecuter.pm
+++ b/misc/evalbot/lib/EvalbotExecuter.pm
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ sub _fork_and_eval {
     if (!defined $fork_val){
         confess "Can't fork(): $!";
     } elsif ($fork_val == 0) {
-        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { close $fh; exit 14 };
+        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {print $fh "(timeout)"; close $fh; exit 14 };
         _set_resource_limits();
-        alarm 14;
+        alarm 12;
         _auto_execute($executer, $program, $fh, $filename);
         alarm 0;
         close $fh;
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ sub _auto_execute {
 sub _set_resource_limits {
 # stolen from evalhelper-p5.pl
     setrlimit RLIMIT_CPU,  15, 20                    or confess "Couldn't setrlimit: $!\n";
-    alarm 15;
 #    setrlimit RLIMIT_VMEM,  500 * 2**20, 200 * 2**20 or confess "Couldn't setrlimit: $!\n";
 # STD.pm has a lexing subdir, varying in size, so allow 15MB
     my $size_limit = 15 * 1024**2;
diff --git a/t/spec/S02-literals/numeric.t b/t/spec/S02-literals/numeric.t
index 55b1e0f..135fb87 100644
--- a/t/spec/S02-literals/numeric.t
+++ b/t/spec/S02-literals/numeric.t
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ isa_ok 1+1i, Complex, '1+1i is a Complex literal';
 ok 1+1i ~~ Numeric, '1+1i is Numeric';
 nok 1+1i ~~ Real, '1+1i is not Real';
 
+# RT #74640
+is_approx 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510e0,
+          3.141592, 'very long Num literals';
+
 done_testing;
 
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