Re: Thoughts from TPC: Testing perlguts with Inline::C

2002-08-04 Thread Mike Lambert
> Then Ingy comes along with Inline::C. One of the tricks he pulled off at > YAPC::Europe was writing a simple Inline module which exposed all the > internal C functions as perl functions. AH HA! Now we can test C functions > just like any other Perl function. > > So, this is a request to place

Re: Thoughts from TPC: Testing perlguts with Inline::C

2002-08-02 Thread Tim Jenness
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > More chronicles of brainstorming from TPC. > > Last year at TPC, Hugo asked for ideas about testing the internal C > functions of Perl. Testing perl itself is ok, but if we can test at an even > finer grained level of the C API many bugs can be mor

Thoughts from TPC: Testing perlguts with Inline::C

2002-08-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
More chronicles of brainstorming from TPC. Last year at TPC, Hugo asked for ideas about testing the internal C functions of Perl. Testing perl itself is ok, but if we can test at an even finer grained level of the C API many bugs can be more easily caught. Additionally the documentation will be