From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:26:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More Todo.
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~34817^2~945
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2607c2e438bd9cd06c13f928dc09dd4e30c67067;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

More Todo.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3714
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diff --git a/Todo b/Todo
index ca5cbaf..226227e 100644
--- a/Todo
+++ b/Todo
@@ -21,7 +21,15 @@ Would be nice to have
 	lexically scoped functions: my sub foo { ... }
 	lvalue functions
 	regression/sanity tests for suidperl
-	Full 64 bit support (i.e. "long long")
+	Full 64 bit support (i.e. "long long").  Things to consider:
+	    how to store/retrieve 32+ integers into/from Perl scalars?
+	    32+ constants in Perl code? (non-portable!)
+	    32+ arguments/return values to/from system calls? (seek et al)
+	    32+ bit ops (&|^~, currently explicitly disabled)
+	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?)