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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
November 17, 2003 09:13
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 coredump: tied hashes implemented as XSUB methods
Message ID:
3FB901AA.8010908@sun.com
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> My memory is that they used the READONLY flag on the hashes to
> indicate a restricted hash only after checking that it had no current
> meaning.  If that memory is correct, setting it on the HVs in 5.6.1
> was a noop.  Did you find that it had any effect?

I think it had an effect if you applied it to the hash elements, but I don't 
think it ever did anything to the hash itself.  From looking through the 
Hash::Utils documentation, I think I probably *do* want to use restricted 
hashes, as I'm representing a tree of read-only C structs as a tree of 
hashes, which is why I was fiddling around with SvREADONLY_on in the first 
place.  However, I'm not aware of any documentation on how this should be 
done from XSUB code.  I can always look at how Hash::Utils does it, but 
that's implemented (mainly) in perl rather than XSUB - I was hoping for some 
existing XSUB code I could plagarise ;-)

-- 
Alan Burlison
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