Well, the idea was to follow tye's advice I found in some other articles on using as much perl/c to wrap the function, and less XS for reasons of cleanliness, simplicity, and debugging which constitutes the former two ideals.

As it turns out, for my purposes the advantages C/XS would supply me over pure perl just aren't worth the time it takes to write the module. All I really wanted was to connect over TCP, send/receive data, close. Truth be told, I've never done perl sockets and I figured I'd rather learn XS and use all the fancy IPv6 C types I wield with such might.

Deflating to say the least, but at least I will learn something new and perly; sockets :D

Anyways, thanks for your input, tye actually threw comments at me about this post as soon as it went up, I just don't know how to remove it... :)

In reply to Re: Re: My XS pointer problem... by doneill
in thread My XS pointer problem... by doneill

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