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Diffstat (limited to 'Todo-5.6')
| -rw-r--r-- | Todo-5.6 | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -43,13 +43,17 @@ Namespace cleanup API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api Configure + fix the vicious cyclic multidependency of cc <-> libpth <-> loclibpth + libswanted <-> usethreads <-> use64bitint <-> use64bitall <-> + uselargefiles <-> ... make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al) - _r support - cross-compilation configuring + this is related to: cross-compilation configuring (see Todo) + _r support (see Todo for mode detailed description) POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff: POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks, timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these) UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO + IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553 Long doubles figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least @@ -82,6 +86,18 @@ Locales Regexen make RE engine thread-safe + a way to do full character set arithmetics: now one can do + addition, negate a whole class, and negate certain subclasses + (e.g. \D, [:^digit:]), but a more generic way to add/subtract/ + intersect characters/classes, like described in the Unicode technical + report on Regular Expression Guidelines, + http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/ + (amusingly, the TR notes that difference and intersection + can be done using "Perl-style look-ahead") + difference syntax? maybe [[:alpha:][^abc]] meaning + "all alphabetic expect a, b, and c"? or [[:alpha:]-[abc]]? + (maybe bad, as we explicitly disallow such 'ranges') + intersection syntax? maybe [[..]&[...]]? POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them =bar= could be done with Unicode, though, see the Unicode TR #15 about normalization forms: |