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On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:08:33 +0100, ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) wrote: > > I don't think there are issues anymore. Unfortunately, XS code likely > > uses a mix of Size_t, MEM_SIZE, and STRLEN, so I'm not sure there's > > much you can actually do. > > This is why my patch makes Size_t, MEM_SIZE and STRLEN available #ifndef > PERL_CORE. On second though, though, standardising on Size_t and > SSize_t will make things easier for upstream-blead dual-life modules > (unless they all use Devel::PPPort and we add the defines there). Which is what I wanted to suggest. Make the core cleaner and have all backward compat available in Devel::PPPort should only cause a *little* extra effort on those XS modules that do not use it correct. It is unlikely to affect end users and cpan clients -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.23 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next