Gisle Aas wrote:
> This is an implementation of this idea. Tests still missing but the
> old test suite still passes (at least on Linux). With this patch perl
> will construct $? from the values that the W* macros give it. If this
> approach makes sense to most people I will finish up the patch by
> adding the missing tests.
Makes sense to me... more than reformulating $? anyway (historically
perl trying to hide the differences between platforms rather than to
show them.)
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