=head1 AUTHORS
-Jarkko Hietaniemi E<lt>F<Jarkko.Hietaniemi@hut.fi>E<gt>,
-Tim Bunce E<lt>F<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>E<gt>
+Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>, Tim Bunce <F<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>>
=head1 MODIFICATION HISTORY
# --- Functions implementing low-level support for timing loops
sub runloop {
- my($n, $c) = (shift, shift);
+ my($n, $c) = @_;
$n+=0; # force numeric now, so garbage won't creep into the eval
croak "negative loopcount $n" if $n<0;