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@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Would be nice to have
support in perlmain to rerun debugger
regression tests using __DIE__ hook
lexically scoped functions: my sub foo { ... }
+ the basic concept is easy and sound,
+ the difficulties begin with self-referential
+ and mutually referential lexical subs: how to
+ declare the subs?
+ lexically scoped typeglobs? (lexical I/O handles work now)
wantlvalue? more generalized want()/caller()?
named prototypes: sub foo ($foo, @bar) { ... } ?
regression/sanity tests for suidperl
@@ -41,6 +46,15 @@ Would be nice to have
an extension (Devel::MProf?) that would return the malloc
stats in a nice Perl datastructure (also a simple interface
to return just the grand total would be good)
+ cross-compilation support
+ host vs target: compile in the host, get the executable to
+ the target, get the possible input files to the target,
+ execute in the target (and do not assume a UNIXish shell
+ in the target! e.g. no command redirection can be assumed),
+ get possible output files back to to host. this needs to work
+ both during Configure and during the build. You cannot assume
+ shared filesystems between the host and the target (you may need
+ e.g. ftp), executing the target executable may involve e.g. rsh
a way to make << and >> to shift bitvectors instead of numbers
Possible pragmas