Re: [perl #41602] [TODO] MS VS 2005 deprecates strdup

2007-03-05 Thread Philip Taylor
alternatives; but strdup isn't one of those functions. A call to strdup is actually compiled into a call to _strdup (via linker tricks (I assume) in oldnames.lib), so there's no difference at all in implementation or safety. -- Philip Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inf and NaN

2006-08-01 Thread Philip Taylor
ost people care about speed more than predictable/correct output.) It seems like the only way to stay safe is to work around the optimiser, presumably by testing bits or using library functions or writing assembly code (e.g. with 'fxam' on x86). Ron -- Philip Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Various questions

2005-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
ively slow, since its concept of memory is slightly incompatible with Parrot's, and anybody who wants speed can use a native C compiler, so I can stop worrying about it? :-) Thanks, -- Philip Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]