32+ constants in Perl code? (non-portable!)
32+ arguments/return values to/from system calls? (seek et al)
32+ bit ops (&|^~, currently explicitly disabled)
+ Generalise Errno way of extracting cpp symbols and use that in
+ Errno and Fcntl (ExtUtils::CppSymbol?)
The _r-problem: for all the {set,get,end}*() system database
calls (and a couple more: readdir, *rand*, crypt, *time,
tmpnam) there are in many systems the _r versions
to be used in re-entrant (=multithreaded) code.
- Generalise Errno way of extracting cpp symbols and use that in
- Errno and Fcntl (ExtUtils::CppSymbol?)
+ Icky things: the _r API is not standardized and
+ the _r-forms require per-thread data to store their state.
+ memory profiler: turn malloc.c:Perl_dump_mstats() into
+ an extension (Devel::MProf?) that would return the malloc
+ stats in a nice Perl datastructure (also a simple interface
+ to return just the grand total) would be good.
Possible pragmas
debugger