Setting the Compiled Name by Hand

Greetings Porters,

I have a slightly unusual(?) requirement with Perl/XS that you may be able to
help with.

In the Class::MethodMaker module that I maintain, methods are created on the
fly and inserted into the clients namespace using a glob assignment from an
anonymous coderef (that may or may not be a closure).

The issue is that when debugging or profiling, all such methods are referred
to as 'Class::MethodMaker::__ANON__', because that's where the code is
compiled.  The only Perl method I can think of around would involve string
evals, which are unnacceptably slow (and lose an element of compile-time
checking).

However, I figure that it must be possible to reset the relevant name with a
little XS code.  Unfortunately, I'm very much into uncharted waters (for me)
here.

So my questions are:

1) Am I missing a pure perl option?

2) Am I right to think that it is possible with XS?

3) Can you please give me a pointer as to where to start?

Obviously complete solutions are welcome too, but I don't want to be *too*
presumptious... :-)

Cheers,
Mx.

• Setting the Compiled Name by Hand by Martyn J. Pearce
• Re: Setting the Compiled Name by Hand by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: Setting the Compiled Name by Hand by Slaven Rezic
• Re: Setting the Compiled Name by Hand by Martyn J. Pearce
• Re: Setting the Compiled Name by Hand by Slaven Rezic