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CAST_INLINE only determines if the cast is done inline or if a subroutine is called to do the cast.

About 80% of the mass of macros used in Perl would be far better implemented as subroutines with the inline keyword attached. That one step would reduce the clutter in the Perl sources immeasurably, and it'd probably run faster.

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Re^5: 64 bit integers woes
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 09, 2009 at 14:06 UTC
    It wasn't portable. But that's changed. They were discussing starting to use it. They were all for it. I don't know if they've started using it or not.
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