Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): August 2025
Tue, 09-Sep-2025 by
alh
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Dave writes:
I spent last month mainly continuing to work on rewriting and modernising
perlxs.pod, Perl's reference manual for XS. The first draft is now about
90% complete. (Last month it was 80%; no doubt next month it will be 95%,
then 97.5%, etc.) The bits that have been reworked so far have ended up
having essentially none of the original text left, apart from section
header titles (which are now in a different order). So it's turning into a
complete rewrite from scratch.
It's still a work-in-progress, so nothing's been pushed yet.
During the course of writing about the XS INTERFACE keyword, I discovered
a bug and fixed it; I also took the opportunity of fixing another INTERFACE
bug which had been reported recently, where the C code generated was
giving errors on recent picky C compilers.
Summary:
* 12:26 fix issues with the XS INTERFACE keyword
* 33:58 modernise perlxs.pod
Total:
* 46:24 (HH::MM)
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