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On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:34:42PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: > With commit 5f81fa4069cb15ccd77b1c4253c870df84c1788a I don't see that commit id. > moving something to > mathoms.c is now simplified. Thanks for this. > To move a function to mathoms.c ... should these instructons also be put at the top of mathoms.c? > If you don't know what mathoms is, > > /* > * Anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to > * throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become > * rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from > * hand to hand were of that sort. > * > * [p.5 of _The Lord of the Rings_: "Prologue"] > */ I've never been entirely clear what the *actual* point of mathoms.c is. I had always assumed it was to allow binary compatibility: i.e. when something is converted from a function to a macro, XS code that had been compiled to use that function would still dynamically link against a newer perl in the same series. But if this is the case, I think we should be emptying out mathoms.c just before every major release, which we don't appear to do. -- If life gives you lemons, you'll probably develop a citric acid allergy.Thread Previous | Thread Next