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On Thu Sep 08 08:34:35 2011, sprout wrote: > On Thu Sep 08 00:41:19 2011, sprout wrote: > > On Thu Sep 08 00:00:09 2011, sprout wrote: > > > On Wed Sep 07 08:24:40 2011, sprout wrote: > > > > If we create a proxy for everything that is freed, even if it is not > > > > blessed, then ref refs and nested aggregates will work. I think I’m > > > > going to do it this way. > > > > > > Attached are two patches. The first one is a minor refactoring to > > > S_get_RV in preparation for the second patch. Applied as ab3a355e8a. > > > The second one fixes the > > > bug by creating a proxy for sub-items of anything about to be freed, if > > > those sub-items are otherwise unreferenced shared SVs. > > > > > > I still need to write a commit message for the second patch. > > > > > > As I’ve never modified shared.xs before, I would appreciate review and > > > approval from someone else before I commit this. > > > > That patch is no good. It makes clone.t loop. > > Here is a better one. It simple skips the magic dance during global > destruction. Applied as 7d585d2f30010. > That means that unproxied shared objects that are around at global > destruction time will not have their destructors fired, but it’s still > better than what we had before. > > I cannot see how to make this work during global destruction. It’s > circular refs that are the problem. I don’t know how to detect those > without leaking memory in the PL_sharedsv_space.Thread Previous | Thread Next