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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:37:03AM +0300, Radu Greab wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2002 17:22 -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 May 2002 23:21:47 BST, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > >As Storable already passes a context object around to make itself thread
> > >safe,
> >
> > This "non-standard" context object (really just an old iteration of
> > the MY_CXT stuff) should be reworked to use the standard MY_CXT macros
> > that use an SV to allocate their space.
>
> Teaching Storable the standard MY_CXT macros may be too much work
> because Storable uses contexts not only for thread-safeness, but also
> for recursive invocations. So, Storable needs to manage more contexts
> per interpreter and the MY_CXT macros may not be powerfull enough to
> support this situation.
>
> With the patch below all tests pass and the leaks are gone. Following
> the MY_CXT macros example all contexts use now a blessed SV and the
> root context is cleaned automatically.
Thanks, applied (and the STMT_XXX one, too). Now I have to find
other things for Nicholas to do... :-)
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