Change 26060 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2005/11/09 11:17:17
Add a comment about possible future refactoring of the pad code.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pad.c#74 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pad.c#74 (text) ====
Index: perl/pad.c
--- perl/pad.c#73~25754~ Thu Oct 13 16:03:46 2005
+++ perl/pad.c Wed Nov 9 03:17:17 2005
@@ -393,7 +393,13 @@
/* XXX DAPM integrate alloc(), add_name() and add_anon(),
* or at least rationalise ??? */
-
+/* And flag whether the incoming name is UTF8 or 8 bit?
+ Could do this either with the +ve/-ve hack of the HV code, or expanding
+ the flag bits. Either way, this makes proper Unicode safe pad support.
+ Also could change the sv structure to make the NV a union with 2 U32s,
+ so that SvCUR() could stop being overloaded in pad SVs.
+ NWC
+*/
PADOFFSET
Perl_pad_alloc(pTHX_ I32 optype, U32 tmptype)
End of Patch.
