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Re: Resync time... [APPLIED] [APPLIED again]

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
April 15, 2002 14:14
Subject:
Re: Resync time... [APPLIED] [APPLIED again]
Message ID:
a05101504b8e0f2b3865c@[155.43.82.181]
At 11:07 PM +0200 4/15/02, Peter Gibbs wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>>  This has been applied too. There's something bugging me about it--I
>>  think there may be issues, and I'd really like it if we made sure we
>>  had a bunch of zero-length string tests in the test suite.
>
>The only issue I am currently aware of with zero-length strings is the fact
>that mem_allocate will allocate 16 bytes during creation, but go_collect
>will allocate zero space, and hence we end up with multiple buffer headers
>pointing to the same physical memory address (see previous thread
>"Definition of a null string?"
>http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg09000.html)

Is this still needed with the update to Parrot_allocate to use 
buffers? I think I took care of that.
-- 
                                         Dan

--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski                          even samurai
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