Steffen Müller

Wishlist: XS/typemap equivalent automatic function wrapping/type conversion

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This is obviously just a wishlist item. :) Looking at csub blocks, I can't but feel that it's the "wrong" API. Writing XSUBs by hand, dealing with the Perl stack...

Partially split Blocks.xs into some .c/.h files?

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I've been wondering: Blocks.xs is pretty big at this point. How would you feel about splitting some of it out into their own .c/.h files to decouple things a bit...

segfaults/etc on lots of clex blocks

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The following variation on my thread safety test script will happily segfault (might need to tune the number iterations for your system or run a few times) even outside of...

Building C::Blocks takes a long time

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I just built C::Blocks on a rather vanilla Linux (4.4.0-53-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 15:59:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) using the stock distribution perl 5.22.1. Building C::Blocks...

Make C::Blocks thread safe

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Please see https://github.com/tsee/C-Blocks/tree/tsee/mutex for a partial fix to make C::Blocks threadsafe. The main commit in that branch outlines what I *know* is missing from it. Other than that, I think...

Loop/scope AST corner cases?

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It seems there's a number of funky corner cases around blocks and loops where ASTification currently DWI don't Ms. Just so I don't have to shave yaks right now. A...

In particular if we allow setting changes only if we close/open a file, maybe we should think about supporting sections that span files. Doesn't seem very likely to be successful...