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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
May 26, 2012 18:55
Subject:
[perl #29939] threads::shared use of XSLoader breaks Devel::DProf
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-7788-1338083706-1777.29939-15-0@perl.org
On Sun May 30 15:39:00 2004, davem@iabyn.com wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:07:28PM -0000, Norbert wrote:
> > I can't run the Devel::DProf profiler on any script that uses 
> > threads/shared.pm, because that lib loads itself using
> > XSLoader::load().  This function is written such that it bumps
> > up against a DProf bug, whereby it chokes on subroutines that
> > end with a last, goto, or next.
> (snip)
> > I suppose that if this problem is going to be fixed in DProf 
> > then this is just a duplicate bug, but I would suggest that 
> > this issue increases the severity, since the major question 
> > marks about ithreads seems to revolve around memory usage, 
> > which DProf is useful for checking.
> 
> Thanks for the report. yes, this does seem to be the same problem.
> 
> P5Pers: the root problem seems to be that whenever pp_entersub is invoked,
> it calls DB::sub rather than the the real sub, and it is left to DB::sub
> to then invoke the real sub, which can be tricky when that real sub may do
> various stuff that will unwind the CX stack (like goto &foo, last, die).
> 
> I'd have thought a better way would be to provide an additional C-level
> hook that gets called by entersub before it (ie entersub) then proceeds to
> call the real sub as usual.
> 
> I havn't looked into this closely, though. I'm hoping someone with some
> more experience in this area might comment.
> 
> Dave.
> 


Discussion in this RT petered out eight years ago, and Devel::DProf was
removed from the Perl core distribution with Perl 5.15.9.

How should we handle this ticket?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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