[perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall

On Fri Aug 30 08:38:46 2013, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >I know that we've got a lot of them, but I'm not sure that I like LVALUE
> >macros.
> 
> Indeed.  We've been forced to change many into get/set pairs, when a value
> stopped being stored as a straightforward mutable lvalue.  We should learn
> from that, and implement future macros in get/set pairs from the start.

Lvalue macros can be really convenient.  If we protect all new macros of
that sort with #ifdef PERL_CORE, it shouldn’t be too bad.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall by Reini Urban
• Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall by Zefram
• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall by James E Keenan
• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files even with largefiles and 64bitall by Father Chrysostomos via RT