Complex tweakery.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Todo-5.6

diff --git a/Todo-5.6 b/Todo-5.6
index 35e6949..fac325c 100644 (file)
--- a/Todo-5.6
+++ b/Todo-5.6
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-Bugs
-    fix small memory leaks on compile-time failures
-
 Unicode support
     finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
     make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
@@ -13,7 +10,6 @@ Unicode support
        - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors:
            use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16"
     eliminate need for "use utf8;"
-    autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init()
     autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser
     check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow
     (see also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous")
@@ -47,13 +43,7 @@ Configure
        libswanted <-> usethreads <-> use64bitint <-> use64bitall <->
        uselargefiles <-> ...  
     make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
-       this is related to: cross-compilation configuring
-       host vs target: compile in the host, get the executable to the target,
-       get the possible input files to the target, execute in the target,
-       get possible output files back to to host.  this needs to work
-       both during Configure and during the build.  You cannot assume
-       shared filesystems between the host and the target, executing
-       the target executable may involve e.g. rsh
+       this is related to: cross-compilation configuring (see Todo)
     _r support (see Todo for mode detailed description)
     POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff:
        POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks,
@@ -135,12 +125,14 @@ Miscellaneous
        Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but
        the units exist)
     floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc.
-       at least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(),
-       class(), isnan(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(),
-       ordered(), fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround(), 
-       ieeefp.h, fp_class.h.  There are metaconfig units for most of these.
-        Search for ifdef __osf__ in pp.c to find a temporary fix that
-       needs to be done right.
+       At least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(),
+       class(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(), unordered(),
+       <ieeefp.h>, <fp_class.h> (there are metaconfig units for all these),
+       fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround()
+       (no metaconfig units yet for these).
+        Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(), fp_class_l(), (yes, both do,
+       unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl().
+       As of 5.6.1 there is cpp macro Perl_isnan().
     fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if
        both arguments are IVs/UVs
     replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)