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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-05-30 22:20:21 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-05-30 22:20:21 +0000
commit5b0d9cefa224486d66580e5164324f002f3989ab (patch)
tree78ab85bc608bbd9964c21ff1cd45a7af06f9a090 /Todo-5.6
parent3813c13628a77759bf2a27ed62289da711baa338 (diff)
downloadperl-5b0d9cefa224486d66580e5164324f002f3989ab.tar.gz
tweak todo
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6167
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@@ -52,9 +52,12 @@ Configure
POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff:
POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks,
timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these)
- better shadow password support: see pp_sys.c:pp_gpwent()
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION
+ there already is Socket6
Long doubles
figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ Long doubles
64-bit support
Configure probe for quad_t, uquad_t, and (argh) u_quad_t, they might
be in some systems the only thing working as quadtype and uquadtype.
+ more pain: long_long, u_long_long.
Locales
deprecate traditional/legacy locales?
@@ -141,6 +145,7 @@ Miscellaneous
(no metaconfig units yet for these).
Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(), fp_class_l(), (yes, both do,
unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl().
+ PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION.
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