(that is, Perl's numbers). Use Configure -Duselongdouble to enable
this support (if it is available).
+Note that the exact format and range of long doubles varies:
+the most common is the x86 80-bit (64 bits of mantissa) format,
+but there are others, with different mantissa and exponent ranges.
+
=head3 "more bits"
You can "Configure -Dusemorebits" to turn on both the 64-bit support
subversions may not have all the compatibility wrinkles ironed out
yet.
-=head2 Upgrading from 5.21.1 or earlier
+=head2 Upgrading from 5.21.3 or earlier
-B<Perl 5.21.4 may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.21.1 or
+B<Perl 5.21.4 may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.21.3 or
earlier Perl releases.> Perl modules having binary parts
(meaning that a C compiler is used) will have to be recompiled to be
used with 5.21.4. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with