Steffen Mueller wrote: > On an ironic side note: The placeholder logic seems to also be relevant > to the way hints hashes are implemented (I might be misreading this. > though), so the placeholder stuff that caused Yves to ask about the fate > of locked hashes seems to be needed for more than just that. Shame. > Really isn't helping. :) &PL_sv_placeholder is a convenient pointer that is (supposed to be) used solely for its memory address, without the contents ever being written to or read. It just happens to be quite convenient for two different (but admittedly similar) purposes. Whether &PL_sv_placeholder is used by hint hashes is irrelevant to locked hashes.Thread Previous | Thread Next