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? -- In my day, we used to edit the inodes by hand. With magnets.Thread Previous