Re: [PATCH] Bug fix for storing shared objects in shared structures

On 11/6/07, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/11/2007, Jerry D. Hedden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The attached patches fix this bug.  Thank to Dean Arnold for the
> > suggestion to use a PL_ function pointer.
>
> OK. The blead.patch can go in without problems: it does nothing and
> prepares binary compatibilty for upcoming 5.10.x and upcoming CPAN
> releases of threads::shared. But the shared.patch itself might be a
> bit dangerous to put in bleadperl this late, knowing that it could
> always be upgraded from CPAN ? What do you think ?

I plan to release the updated threads::shared to CPAN if you
incorporate these patches into blead.  However, there is no
compatibility issues:  the two patches will work with or without each
other.  You can see this by noting the #ifdef PL_destroyhook in
shared.xs.