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Quoth nick@ccl4.org (Nicholas Clark): > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:26:51AM +0100, Vincent Pit wrote: > > > > > ... which also means that it should probably not be public, if we > > > follow the logic that the optree construction should not be public; > > > Devel::BeginLift is already copying parts of op.c to do its magic. > > > > > > > > > > But isn't the optree construction already kind of public through the > > pluggable check functions ? They can alter it by replacing ops as they > > are created. > > Um. Yes. Good point. Not sure. > Why are these pluggable? I don't think they were supposed to be, they are just kept in an array to allow dispatch on op_type. In fact there are a number of ops (PADSV, for instance) whose constructors never call CHECKOP, which makes hooking into PL_check a lot less useful than it could be. BenThread Previous | Thread Next