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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:06:57PM +0000, David Mitchell wrote:
> [Cc'ed to perl-mvs@perl.org because this email contains a (trivial)
> patch to perly.y ]
>
> The patch below cleans up all the debugging flags in the Perl src
> as per the earlier discusssion.
>
> Some notes:
>
> * in the absence of knowing what flag 0x8000000 did, I've defined
> a constant DEBUG_TOP_FLAG - this probably needs renaming if someone
> can tell me what's it for.
>
> * There's now a constant DEBUG_MASK which has the bottom 17 bits set;
> mg.c used to have this hard-coded as 32767 which I presume was a bug;
> so $^D now includes flags > 2^15.
>
> * I have directly patched the perly.{c,y,vms,etc} files rather than
> using assorted hairy mammals.
>
>
>
> patched against 9063:
Thanks, applied. (You had a couple of wrapped lines, though. Beat
your email reading program until it behaves.)
A pod/perlrun.pod patch would be nice, too.
>
>
> diff -ruN 9063-orig/ext/re/re.xs 9063-patched/ext/re/re.xs
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