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On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I'm a bit slow on reporting that a week or two ago I tried the most simple
> "simplify things by converting alternate macro definitions to one inline
> function" that I could find:
> ++PERL_STATIC_INLINE bool SvTRUEx(SV *const sv) { return SvTRUE(sv); }
> and, well, it fails with a most beautiful explosion of cryptic compiler errors.
> Because, it turns out, at this point, I'm attempting to define (and therefore
> compile) SvTRUEx in terms of SvTRUE(), so *that* is textually expanded right
> there and then, and expected to work.
My first forays (for testing purposes) were with SvREFCNT_inc(sv) and
friends, and they didn't end up triggering any such problems. I hope you
were just unlucky and happened to pick a particularly gnarly case by
accident.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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