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From:
Arthur Bergman
Date:
January 21, 2003 02:13
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Re: change #9754: 5 x slowdown for perl -d
Message ID:
F30E13F8-2D28-11D7-A7B8-003065D64CBE@contiller.se

On tisdag, jan 21, 2003, at 09:40 Europe/Stockholm, Nick Ing-Simmons 
wrote:

> <hv@crypt.org> writes:
>> Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> wrote:
>> :Dave Mitchell wrote:
>> :> If this is the case, we could steal the unused 0x10 bit of HINTS 
>> and
>> :> use that to do the signalling, by appropriately modifying 
>> pp_dbstate() and
>> :> Perl_magic_setdbline().
>> :>
>> :> How does that sound as a plan?
>> :
>> :I approve. _Untested_ first shot :
>>
>> Sounds good to me. I think we should use 0x20 though, and let Arthur
>> take 0x10 if he's prepared to come up with a name and patch for it.
>
> /* #define HINT_notused10	0x00000010 */
> 				/* Note: 20,40,80 used for NATIVE_HINTS */
> 				/* currently defined by vms/vmsish.h */
> So breaking VMS is okay?
>
>

I suggest we use the op_special flag instead

Arthur


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