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Perl Guts and Blessed Objects
Today was a day of enrichment.  After spending a large amount of time trying to correct the segfaultwhen we try to load the Gaim module into Perl, I felt I needed a foray into the internals of Perl once again to try and better understand the situation.  A few hours was spent with the Perl documentation and source code trying to understand how <code>dXSARGS</code> sets up the stack for the XS code.  In an attempt to always get closer to completing the project, I also finished converting a few more of the API headers into XSUB routines.  
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I put together some nifty test scripts last night and most things are working well.  Account.xs and BuddyList.xs seem to be working well except for <code>gaim_accounts_connect()</code> which just hangs after creating a <code>GaimConnection</code>, however correcting the problem is a project for another day.  To do some of the XSUBs that I had defered to a later date when I initialally began work on the project, I am going to have to get a better understanding of the Perl API and Perl's internals (lovingly called Perl Guts).  With any luck I will have test scripts for what I have already completed in the next few days.  The variety is a good way to keep the development process interesting since the wrapping of API calls with Perl is not always exciting.  
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Tomorrow will proably be another day of grep'ing and XSUB writing. I hope to get the bulk of the XSUBs for the current API written in the coming week or two and then test everything I have not already gotten to test along the way.  There are a few lingering API calls that I am going to have to spend some time thinking about how to interface with Perl that I hope to address in the coming day or two.