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Re: Proposed changes and to regular expression interfaces in core

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Tels
Date:
April 10, 2007 10:34
Subject:
Re: Proposed changes and to regular expression interfaces in core
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Moin,

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 04:28:09 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another thing would be to change regexp_paren_pair to use STRLEN
> > instead of I32. Capture offsets might go beyond 2**32 bytes.
>
> Actually negative indices are used currently so it couldn't be STRLEN
> without some larger changes.

Doesn't Perl have I64? if not, it's about time we add it, since I32 starts 
increasingly to become a limit...

All the best,

Tels

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