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Re: [perl #24463] DBI tests fail with perl 5.8. 2 and -Duseithreads -Dusemultiplicity -Duse64bitint

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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
November 14, 2003 01:23
Subject:
Re: [perl #24463] DBI tests fail with perl 5.8. 2 and -Duseithreads -Dusemultiplicity -Duse64bitint
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20031114092312.2783.2@llama.elixent.com
Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro> writes:
>On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 a.d., Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>> Well, the original problem is at
>> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-10/msg01449.html
>> 
>> In fact what was wanted (and implemented by this patch) is the ability to
>> access the PerlIO API early during the cloning -- to be used by debugging
>> flags (-D) for example.
>
>The whole idea of using PerlIO printing functions (which do malloc
>a lot themselves and mess with perl's internal state) to track
>leaking mallocs is at least curious :-)

PerlIO_debug() is a printf-oid that is a little easier to use that way.



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