struct perl_string {
void *string_buffer;
UV length;
UV allocated;
UV flags;
}
The low three bits of the flags field is reserved for the type of the
string. The various types are:
=over 4
=item BINARY (0)
=item ASCII (1)
=item EBCDIC (2)
=item
At 12:01 PM 3/5/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
struct perl_string {
void *string_buffer;
UV length;
UV allocated;
UV flags;
}
The low three bits of the flags field is reserved for the type of the
string. The various types are:
=over 4
=item
Here's a mildly fixed up version of PDD 4. References to the NUM and INT
types have been reduced to generic concepts rather than data types of some
sort.
Cut Here--
=head1 TITLE
Perl's internal data types
=head1 VERSION
1.1
=head2 CURRENT
Maintainer: Dan Sugalski
Here is an example, "re`sume`" takes 6 characters in Latin-1, but
could take 8 characters in Unicode. All Perl functions that directly
deal with character position and length will be sensitive to encoding.
I wonder how we should handle this case.
My first inclination is to force
