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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index a4e655cdcb..771740e91a 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ Clean these up. Move them to mathom.c, and don't compile for blead? - =head1 Tasks that need a knowledge of XS These tasks would need C knowledge, and roughly the level of knowledge of @@ -275,6 +274,16 @@ C. Clean this up. Check everything in core works +=head2 merge Perl_sv_2[inpu]v + +There's a lot of code shared between C<Perl_sv_2iv_flags>, +C<Perl_sv_2uv_flags>, C<Perl_sv_2nv>, and C<Perl_sv_2pv_flags>. It would be +interesting to see if some of it can be merged into common shared static +functions. In particular, C<Perl_sv_2uv_flags> started out as a cut&paste +from C<Perl_sv_2iv_flags> around 5.005_50 time, and it may be possible to +replace both with a single function that returns a value or union which is +split out by the macros in F<sv.h> + =head2 UTF8 caching code The string position/offset cache is not optional. It should be. |