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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:31:22PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> I have a module (Solaris::Kstat) which implements a tied hash entirely from
> XSUB code. This works fine in 5.6.1, but cores in 5.8.2. I've added some
> debug code, and whilst all the other XSUB tied hash methods are being
> called correctly, CLEAR isn't - it looks like Perl_hv_clear() is being
> called rather than the tied CLEAR method. The stack trace looks like this:
>
> Perl_hv_clear
> Perl_pp_aassign
> Perl_runops_standard
> S_run_body
> perl_run
> main
>
> i.e. no sign of the XSUB CLEAR method. I haven't had time to nail this
> down yet, but being lazy I wondered if anyone else had seem the same
> problem?
Perl_hv_clear() has the following bit in it:
if (SvRMAGICAL(hv))
mg_clear((SV*)hv);
So assuming that it has the right magical flags set and the right magic
attached, it should just work. How is the tie created?
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