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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
November 15, 2003 09:35
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 coredump: tied hashes implemented as XSUB methods
Message ID:
3FB663A0.4030400@sun.com
Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:

Thanks for this - I'm hoping the fault is in my code as that will be easier 
to fix ;-) and having a working example to compare against will be a great help.

> I also have a module that implements a tied hash purely in XS,
> but I don't see any problems with 5.8.2.
> 
> The only changes between major perl releases I can find are
> between 5.005_03 and 5.6.0 (which changed the order of calls
> to FETCH/STORE when doing 'values %hash') and between 5.8.0
> and 5.8.1 (which made DESTROY being correctly called in void
> context). I can see no change (from the API point of view)
> that affects how CLEAR is being called.
> 
> If you'd like to have a look, my module (Tie::Hash::Indexed)
> can be built with debugging support by saying
> 
>   perl Makefile.PL enable-debug
> 
> which allows you to trace each method call by exporting
> 
>   THI_DEBUG_OPT=d
> 
> in your environment.

-- 
Alan Burlison
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