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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
November 25, 2000 10:26
Subject:
Re: SvOOK_on
Message ID:
20001125122557.A28384@chaos.wustl.edu
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 06:20:15PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Does any part of perl actually use SvOOK_on()
> [to cheat and make the PV not actually point to the start of the malloc()ed
> buffer, with the offset to the true start stored in the IV slot]
>
> perl's code seems robust to turn if off when needed, eg:
>
> #define SvIOKp_on(sv) ((void)SvOOK_off(sv), SvFLAGS(sv) |= SVp_IOK)
> #define SvIOK_on(sv) ((void)SvOOK_off(sv), \
> SvFLAGS(sv) |= (SVf_IOK|SVp_IOK))
>
> but I can find no part of the perl tree that ever seems to turn on this
> feature. Am I missing something, or is this now an unused vestige, or do
I tried to find such a spot once, too, with as plentiful results as you
have got.
> some extensions use it?
>
> Nicholas Clark
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