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Postings from January 2003
Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net> wrote: :On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:22:02AM +0000, hv@crypt.org wrote: :> John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote: :> :Nicholas Clark wrote: :> :> I wonder how many parts of the perl core can be reduced slightly in size :> :> by changing %s SvPV_nolen(sv) to %_ sv. :> : :> :I was wondering that myself. I may give it a shot, but it might be a fairly :> :megapatch. We'll see if Hugo likes it... :> :> Sounds like a fine idea to me: less code, no speed penalty that I can see. :> If the patch is very large, best not to spam p5p with it - you can send :> it to me direct, or put it up for ftp/http somewhere. : :It's not huge. I left out patching the OS/2 specific code in Devel::DProf, :and I'll send the patch to ext/Encode/Unicode/Unicode.xs direct to Dan :Kogai Thanks, the three that refer to PerlIO_printf: :+++ ./pad.c Wed Dec 25 21:20:45 2002 :@@ -878,8 +878,8 @@ Perl_intro_my(pTHX) :@@ -926,8 +926,8 @@ Perl_pad_leavemy(pTHX) :+++ ./sv.c Wed Dec 25 19:24:59 2002 :@@ -9359,8 +9360,9 @@ Perl_sv_dup(pTHX_ SV *sstr, CLONE_PARAMS give compiler warnings: pad.c: In function `Perl_intro_my': pad.c:878: warning: unknown conversion type character `_' in format pad.c:878: warning: long unsigned int format, pointer arg (arg 4) pad.c:878: warning: too many arguments for format I'm not quite sure why, since PerlIO_printf does not map to a system library call for this build; however, it would do so in some other cases: perlsdio.h:#define PerlIO_printf PerlSIO_printf perlsfio.h:#define PerlIO_printf sfprintf iperlsys.h: #define PerlSIO_printf Perl_fprintf_nocontext iperlsys.h: #define PerlSIO_printf fprintf perlsdio.h: #define PerlIO_printf PerlSIO_printf .. and I'm not sure what would happen in those situations. I've applied the patch without those three fragments as #18456. Hugo