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
+ 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
+ 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.
+ to be used in re-entrant (=multithreaded) code
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
+ 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).
+ to return just the grand total would be good)
+ Unicode: [=bar=], combining characters equivalence
+ (U+4001 + U+0308 should be equal to U+00C4, in other words
+ A+diaereres should equal Ä), Unicode collation
Possible pragmas
debugger