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Moin,
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 19:11:44 Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote:
> > But what if you need negative integers, too? Expression signed numbers
> > in an unsigned type like size_t is quite awkward.
>
> I'll explain this a bit better if only to get it clear in my own head.
>
> The core engine expresses capture variables with an array of I32
> start/end pairs. So a match like:
>
> "bwbs" =~ /(.)(..)/;
>
> Would result in the following structure:
>
> regexp_paren_pair pairs[] = { {0, 3}, { 0, 1}, {1, 3}, { -1, -1 } };
>
> I.e. $& = "bwb"; $1 = "b"; $2 = "wb" and $3 = undef, $4 = undef, ....
>
> The only thing using a I32 gives us here is having -1 mark the end of
> capture buffers. dmq had the idea of using 0 instead which of course
> would entail expressing what was {0, 3} as {1, 4}. Unless anyone else
> has any better ideas.
When working with size_t, you often end up having the need to express -1 as
it is used for errors. Then you typical use:
size_t(-1)
This means you are basically limited to 2**N-1 instead of 2**N/2.
> Using a size_t-ish type such as STRLEN would
> allow us to have giant capture vars and to wrap regexp libs that allow
> them, such as the POSIX regex library.
Sounds cool.
> I32 is also used for functions such as Perl_reg_numbered_buff_fetch()
> which take a I32 paren argument indicating what capture buffer should
> be retrived. -2 is used for $`, -1 for $' and 0 for $&. This limits
> the number of capture vars to around 2**32/2.
Or then 2*64 - 3 :-)
> In any case other parts of the interface present bigger issues, but
> this is one of the things that would be nice to get right the first
> time.
Sorry for the confusion, but I meant that as an XS writer, I would also like
to have a portable way of saying I64. I know about U8, U32 etc, but I am
not sure if I64 or U64 exist. If not, it would be cool to have them. If
they already exist, nvm me.
All the best,
Tels
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