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On 6/19/2012 2:33 PM, bulk 88 wrote: > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:34:32 -0700 >> From: rev.chip@gmail.com >> To: jand@activestate.com >> CC: bulk88@hotmail.com; perl5-porters@perl.org >> Subject: Re: Time for a 64-bit perl API? >> >> Indeed. An error value for an unsigned type, in a properly portable >> program like Perl, would be ~(type)0 or (type)-1, not bare -1. > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/uconfig.h#l2978 > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/regexp.h#l184 Don't know when to stop, do you? These are cases that prove my point. RD_NODATA is a signed value; it is the error flag for the read() function, which returns ssize_t (or in Perl, SSize_t). RX_BUFF_IDX_POSTMATCH is a signed value; it is assigned to "register I32 paren". C'mon, keep going. This is fun.Thread Previous | Thread Next