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On 6/20/2012 4:22 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 05:29:26PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: >> 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). > Widening the types of pointers breaks things. > (That's probably not quite phrased correctly) "Altering the target types of pointer parameters breaks things," ITYM. True, that's on the list of "needs new function" if we encounter it.Thread Previous | Thread Next