Re: standard representations

[Andy Dougherty]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> I honestly can't think of any reason why the internal representation of an 
> integer matters to the outside world, but if someone can, do please 
> enlighten me. :)

Passing parameters to library functions via extensions is tricky no matter
how you do it.  You must have a clear mapping between the types used in
the library (e.g. int or void * or some POSIXy_t thingy) and the types
used internally in Perl (e.g. IV).  Currently we get away with being
sloppy since I32 is almost always the same as int.

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    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042