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demerphq

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May 14, 2008 14:55

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Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules

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2008/5/8 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 05:59:53AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>
>  > the point is, code that uses char * without looking at the flag in other
>  > ways is simply broken, it has no defined/documentable behaviour on the
>  > perl level.
>
>  Agree. The code can't know for sure what it's getting.
>
>  I'm still digesting the rest of the ideas in the thread.

This problem crops in the core as well as in XS. For instance our
internal file apis use char* parameters. (This is relevant for Win32
in particular)

yves




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