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Re: [PATCH] h2ph, etc.
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From:
Kurt D. Starsinic
Date:
July 26, 2001 08:40
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] h2ph, etc.
Message ID:
20010726084031.A12777@wolfetech.com
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:54:40AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Kurt D . Starsinic <kstar@cpan.org> writes:
> >Hello,
> >
> > The following patch:
> >
> > Adds a test, h2ph_thorough, that compares constants available in
> > POSIX.pm and Socket.pm to their equivalents as generated by h2ph.
> >
> > Reveals many bugs in h2ph.
> ...
> >
> >
> > I expect the Average Platform to get three failures on the test.
> >These are old bugs; we just didn't have tests for them before. I'm
> >working on fixing them.
>
> Not applied (yet) - I am a little wary of adding fails - what is guestimate
> as when the fixes for an "Average Platform" will be ready?
Within the week. I'm only aware of two outstanding cases now:
typecasts where the type identifier is unrecognized, and special
floating point numbers like NaN and Inf. I have strategies for
fixing them already, I just didn't want to hold off the patches.
> Also what about non-average platforms where POSIX and Socket or
> "equivalent" .h files may be "odd" ?
They shouldn't be a special problem. As we come up with breakages,
though, I'll fix them. That's why I wrote the test. ;^)
- Kurt
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