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> It seems real difficult to get PL_regprev correct in all cases. Below is
> a patch to remove PL_regprev entirely, which doesn't fail any of the
> existing tests and which I believe should offer a performance improvement.
> I assume there may be problems not currently tested, particularly in the
> area of in-place substitutions - can you suggest test cases that fail?
>
> The remaining mention of PL_regprev is in Porting/findvars - I'm not sure
> what that is used for, so I have left it alone.
Seems like some relic of olden times.
> Hugo
> --- thrdvar.h.old Tue Jan 30 18:14:40 2001
> +++ thrdvar.h Sun Apr 29 16:18:07 2001
Thanks, applied.
(The PL_regprev being a char would have been broken anyway -- for Unicode.
At least a UV would have been needed, but a full SV would have been better
(think combining characters and normalization).)
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