Re: When do we use PERLIO vs STDIO

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>wrote:

> I discovered that ext/XS-APItest/APItest.xs is testing the libc functions
> like printf().  We think (on irc) that it is intending to be testing the
> PERLIO equivalents instead.  Does anyone know?
>
>
I'm pretty sure that when I wrote this in 2002 I had no clue about perlio
vs stdio and just wanted to test that I could print something. I can't
remember what motivated me. The earliest version of APItest.xs I can find
from June 10, 2002 just seems to have tests for printing. It's more more
complex these days but those routines look the same.

I had assumed that perl would pick up the relevant version of printf (a
reimplementation or the stdio one) and the choice would be down to the
include files. APItest.xs doesn't explicitly try to include stdio.h.
Wouldn't printf() be translated to a PerlIO version?

-- 
Tim Jenness

• When do we use PERLIO vs STDIO by Karl Williamson
• Re: When do we use PERLIO vs STDIO by Tim Jenness
• Re: When do we use PERLIO vs STDIO by Karl Williamson
• Re: When do we use PERLIO vs STDIO by Craig A. Berry