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Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
May 8, 2008 09:04
Subject:
Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 05:59:53AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> the point is, code that uses char * without looking at the flag in other
> ways is simply broken, it has no defined/documentable behaviour on the
> perl level.

Agree. The code can't know for sure what it's getting.

I'm still digesting the rest of the ideas in the thread.

Nicholas Clark



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