This is a bug report for perl from jtobey@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.17 running under perl 5.00401. ... [Please enter your report...
John Tobey
jet@remote82
Jun 25, 1997 3:09 pm
5587
... That doesn't look quite right to me. When provided a literal, you should point at the actual literal (which normally has a global lifetime), rather than...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jun 26, 1997 6:59 pm
5588
I've tested your changes; results & comments below... ... I agree. Pointing to an immortal would be better than pointing to a mortal. Might we get into...
John Tobey
jtobey@...
Jun 27, 1997 3:05 pm
5589
... I did say 'untested' ;-) The "else if" should be a plain "if". ... Please try not to think merely of what _you_ would do. There is a whole world out...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jun 27, 1997 3:05 pm
5590
Pardon my doggedness, but I really think all scalar expressions ought to be packable as "p". New pp.c snippet below... ... [clip] ... Yes, now that you've...
John Tobey
jtobey@...
Jun 30, 1997 3:17 pm
5591
... Remember, adding the -warning *will* continue to allow it. ... I can see a few ways to implement transparent 'p' packing, but all of them involve larger...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jul 1, 1997 3:25 am
5592
... It prevents POSIX.so being loaded _AT ALL_ on SunOS, NetBSD, and several others. ... DBI and Tk have had this problem since the begining. ... Then we...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 4:42 pm
5593
... I like that - in a sense we are "advertising" but in a targeted manner. -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@...> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 4:47 pm
5594
... Thinking about this - the "obvious" way is to have the address of the table passes as a C level argument to the boostrap function. -- Nick Ing-Simmons...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 5:13 pm
5595
I have patches for install.bat but I don't have an install.bat file! I presume it's part of the bindist bundle. Could someone. ideally Sarathy, send me the...
Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Jul 29, 1997 8:10 am
5596
... It is a mess. If you build a libperl.so and link it to perl executable then that if "sufficient" for SunOS/Solaris to resolve symbols in POSIX.so when...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 4:33 pm
5597
... We discussed it many times. The *only* compatible way I know is to put it into XSANY of "bootstrap". Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Jul 29, 1997 12:46 pm
5598
m2t1 Configure and builds ok in NetBSD 1.2D, Digital UNIX 4.0, sans those _three_ failing substr tests (27, 76, 77). Also installed ok to the NetBSD box. -- ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jul 29, 1997 8:19 pm
5599
... There were plans on p5p for an alias scheme. e.g. use Alias PDL::Graphics::Trid => TriD; $a = new TriD; I don't know what happened to them Karl...
Karl Glazebrook
kgb@...
Jul 30, 1997 4:17 am
5600
... Yes that will serve as C level "argument". -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@...> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd....
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 7:31 pm
5601
... Hmm... maybe that would be a good idea. Tuomas...
Tuomas J. Lukka
tjl@...
Jul 29, 1997 2:19 pm
5602
I am not sure if anyone made a reply to your question ... A simple suggestion that should speed up your database access is as follows: 1-assume that the...
Mabry, F. DR ...
df6954@...
Jul 29, 1997 3:02 pm
5603
... I think it could wait for 5.004_5X unless more people speak up for it. Tim....
Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Jul 29, 1997 7:09 pm
5604
Hi!, I goofed! What I had meant to add at the bottom of that message was that I also have a HUGE (7000+ lines) script that has tons of my() declarations (some...
Patrick St. Jean
psj@...
Jul 29, 1997 3:39 pm
5605
Hello Mr. Dougherty Excuse me for disturbing you. I downloaded PERL and got the error listed below when trying to compile it. I got your address from the...
blumer_a@...
Jul 28, 1997 9:50 pm
5606
... Would someone like to contact Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@...> on this topic? He's going to be doing work on DLD soon, and apparently has some ideas...
Kenneth Albanowski
kjahds@...
Jul 29, 1997 4:54 pm
5607
In the interests of accuracy, this patch was not due to me, but to Chip Title: "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start" From: "John L. Allen"...
John L. Allen
allen@...
Jul 29, 1997 5:39 pm
5608
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5 for ($i=0; $i<1000; $i++) { eval "sub sub$i {}"; } $_ = `cat $ARGV[0]`; while (s/./$&/){} (an artificial script distantly derived from a...
T J Harding
tjh@...
Jul 29, 1997 11:24 pm
5609
... I would rather it was discussed here. -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@...> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd....
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 29, 1997 11:45 pm
5610
Ken Fox
kfox@...
Jul 29, 1997 6:56 pm
5611
A new version is out again. http://www.fas.harvare.edu/~lukka/pdl This contains the new speedup patches. Not too many other changes (except a little bit of...
Tuomas J. Lukka
tjl@...
Jul 29, 1997 7:08 pm
5612
... That is undesirable - e.g. X Atoms in Tk, does $@ have IV (boolean) value and PV (string i.e. error message) value? -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@...> ...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Jul 30, 1997 12:15 am
5613
Chip Salzenberg
chip@...
Jul 29, 1997 7:32 pm
5614
... I have to admit feeling a little cheated when I first read the source for `strict.pm', and did experiments with `$^H' to confirm that it is implicitly ...
Jesse Glick
jesse@ginger
Jul 29, 1997 6:36 pm
5615
Sorry, wrong mailing list :( Anyway, for those who don't know yet, PDL is a matlab-like numeric extension to perl that allows $a + $b to represent matrix (or...