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pmdynflags and thread safety

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 31, 2007 15:40
Subject:
pmdynflags and thread safety
Message ID:
20070331224023.GJ5748@plum.flirble.org
struct pmop {
    BASEOP
    ...
    U32		op_pmflags;
    U32		op_pmpermflags;
    U8		op_pmdynflags;
    ...
};


and yet in pp_match I see things like

	PL_curpm = pm;
	if (dynpm->op_pmflags & PMf_ONCE)
	    dynpm->op_pmdynflags |= PMdf_USED;



This is modifying the optree, isn't it?

And that is bad and wrong, isn't it?

(the reason *I* am looking at this is that there is a U8 there, which is
padding the struct up to 60 bytes on ILP32, and if there's a way of getting
it to share the space with the two U32s, then the struct drops to 56 bytes)

Nicholas Clark
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