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Leon Timmermans
Date:
June 16, 2012 08:29
Subject:
Re: Time for a 64-bit perl API?
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
> I thought increasing the size of an argument was not considered an
> incompatible change.  We have already done that with some functions.

I'd agree. The only place where widening them up can really break is
function pointers, and I doubt anyone is doing that (if only because
of the pTHX mess they'd have to do).

Leon

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