Leon Timmermans

> What did/do you make of @alabamenhu's [Binex](https://github.com/alabamenhu/BinexObjex)? I doesn't look like it's a good solution for my problem. Binary formats don't generally involve things like backtracking, I don't think...

> @Leont feels to me you're advocating a superset of the functionality pack/unpack provide, with a more object oriented syntax for specifying the format? Yes, possibly something of a high...

> or the "dump a C struct" like utmp which is quite easy to deal with by pack or the read_foo methods Yeah, `pack` is generally pretty good at that...

> ``` > END { > $dbh->disconnect; > $dbh = undef; > } > ``` I would recommend changing that to `$dbh->disconnect if $dbh`, if you end the script before...

Has someone tried to bisect the change in behavior? Right now we don't even know which development release was involved.

> Am I doing something wrong, or is metacpan search buggy? If you select `*.xs, *.c` as the file extensions, four dists will show up: https://grep.metacpan.org/search?q=do_openn&qft=*.xs%2C+*.c&qd=&qifl=

> That sounds like a bug. I want to do an unrestricted search, and yet it doesn't find it. I can't reproduce it anymore, but I did see it right...

CPANTesters suggests this never even worked on perls above 5.18 anyway, which may make it hard to look at what's going on here. It hasn't seen an update in more...

It's hooking into the debugger all wrong as far as I can tell. A proper debugging module (loaded with `perl -d:Enbugger) would set the right bits automatically and wouldn't need...

It's trying to use a non-API Perl function (`qerror`), which is C23 is a bit more strict about because it no longer allows for calling undeclared functions. > Probably related:...