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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
July 24, 2013 16:09
Subject:
Re: upcoming release of 5.18.1
Message ID:
20130724160906.GK3729@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:56:46AM -0400, bulk 88 wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: xdg@xdg.me
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:50:22 -0400
> > Subject: Re: upcoming release of 5.18.1
> > CC: perl5-porters@perl.org

> > * The OP allocation code now returns correctly aligned memory in all
> > cases for "struct pmop". Previously it could return memory only
> > aligned to a 4-byte boundary, which is not correct for an ithreads
> > build with 64 bit IVs on some 32 bit platforms. Notably, this caused
> > the build to fail completely on sparc GNU/Linux. [RT #118055]
> >
> 
> That would break ABI/XS between maint releases. 		 	   		  
Why so?

We've not changed any public headers, and we're *tightening* the alignment
constraint. Allocations are now 8 byte aligned (as they should have been all
along for that structure for those platforms), so anything only assuming the
previous 4 byte alignment will be fine.

Also, it's been tested and fixes the crash on the affected platforms, and
hasn't broken any others.

Hence I believe that it's suitable compatible to go in - XS extensions
compiled against v5.18.0 will still work when loaded by v5.18.1

Nicholas Clark

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