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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > cv_undef() and cv_const_sv() are not in the list of public API > functions. I'm not sure why mod_perl needs them, but it seems like > a bad idea to use them. (SvREFCNT_dec() should be used rather than > cv_undef(), because the latter will clobber a CV regardless of how > many people own it. And cv_const_sv() is purely internal.) Apache::Symbol::undef wants to clobber the CV regardless. it was a special version of pp_undef to avoid the old mandatory warning of constant subroutine being re-defined. cv_const_sv() is handy to check if a subroutine has been constant folded. i didn't notice this breakage, both are referenced in Apache/Symbol.so, which builds fine, but is not used by the 'core'. now i notice mod_perl skips the modules/symbol test because it fails to load. it would be nice if these could be made public again.Thread Previous | Thread Next