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On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> John Siracusa wrote:
> > Is this expected behavior or a bug?
>
> There is something funny going on there; those cases are not working as
> intended. I suspect that destruction is managing to happen outside the
> expected unwinding time, perhaps due to mortal refs. Note that in test
> case 2 the object ref is actually the return value of the eval block,
> which might have some bearing, but empirically adding "my $z = $foo;"
> or similar as an additional statement inside the eval block changes the
> result, even though it's a similar last statement in the block and yields
> the same value from the block. So there's more to this.
The first failure is due to the various scope-leaving ops (such as
pp_leavetry) not freeing temps on scope exit in void context. They
used not to in scalar and aray contexts too, but that that was one of the
things I changed in 5.23.8. I ummed and ahhed about whether to do it for
void context too, but couldn't think of a case where it would matter,
so left it with the more efficient status quo.
The second failure is because in addition, assigning to a ref doesn't
immediately free the referent: instead it mortalises it. This is so that
things like $a = $a->[0] work. This coupled with the non-freeing of
mortals in void scope exit explains the second failure.
--
The Enterprise's efficient long-range scanners detect a temporal vortex
distortion in good time, allowing it to be safely avoided via a minor
course correction.
-- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #21
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