use warnings; use strict; use Config; use Fcntl; printf "Perl $^V %s ivsize %d byteorder %d\n", $Config{archname}, $Config{ivsize}, $Config{byteorder}; # Generate a "binary file" with a string of bytes likely to show up issues in # decoding my $binary = "\x91\x34\x33\x90\x81\x32\x31\x80"; for my $fileLE (0, 1) { my $fromFile = $fileLE ? 'V4' : 'N4'; open my $inFH, '<:raw', \$binary; read $inFH, my $raw1, 4; read $inFH, my $raw2, 4; my $long1 = unpack $fromFile, $raw1; my $long2 = unpack $fromFile, $raw2; my $packed = pack "L2", $fileLE ? ($long1, $long2) : ($long2, $long1); my $longlong = unpack 'Q', $packed; printf "%s: %016x\n", ($fileLE ? "LE" : "BE"), $longlong; }