Instead of arguing about who is right and who is wrong, let's remember that there are others our there who are glad to see us bicker. Bulk88 has a working example. Chip has some insight (not a surprise). Let's marry those two and get to a 64 bit api instead of giving our competitors a reason to be gleeful. David On Jun 19, 2012 6:46 PM, "bulk 88" <bulk88@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:21 -0700 > > From: rev.chip@gmail.com > > To: bulk88@hotmail.com > > CC: perl5-porters@perl.org > > Subject: Re: Time for a 64-bit perl API? > > > > Your finding error values for *signed* types as rebuttals was therefore > > amusingly irrelevant, and your inability to correct your own error is, > > frankly, sad. > > > I have no reason at all to correct my XS code. My error was intentional > and I already disclosed it in the XS post. There would be no conversation > without a working example. It is naive to assume that programmer error is > impossible. I am not speaking for myself, but for other less knowledgeable > programmers who might want to work on the perl interp or write XS modules. > >Thread Previous | Thread Next