Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <lists.perl6.internals/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>#17549, 17569 intlist bugfix, speedup, test
> Applied. Thanks again for all the checkins. > One slight query I had was the meaning of the extra parameter added > to intlist_new() by this patch. I assume the idea is that you can call > it with a value of 0 to reset the intlist? No it's not a reset thing. I should have documented it better, though i thought the wod "initial" would tell it ;-) The intlist structure is a little bit special, the first chunk - and after shift/unshift maybe another entry - is the head of the list, which carries additional information: Before my patch only the length of the list, and now additionally e.g. the junk_list member. This head chunk or "the list" is the parameter for the intlist functions, in case of shift/unshift you pass an address, because the head might move. The "intial" parameter now constructs such an head entry, is it 0, then a "normal" entry is allocated. > Tom leo
