On perl-5.30.0 whose nvsize is 8 (and whose nvtype is 'double': C:\>perl -V:nvsize nvsize='8'; C:\>perl -le "print int(1000 * 0.001);" 1 On perl-5.30.0 whose nvsize is 12 or 16 (and whose nvtype is 'long double'): C:\>perl -V:nvsize nvsize='16'; C:\>perl -le "print int(1000 * 0.001);" 0