Re: [patch@35055] vms.c rmsexpand refactor

On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:44 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> This patch makes a version of rmsexpand available for calling with  
> out an implicit context, which is needed for threaded perl as  
> several routines do not have or need an implicit context.
>
> This is the sixth of a multi-part conversion to remove access  
> violations when internal perl warning and error routines, and memory  
> allocation routines are called with a null pointer for the implicit  
> context.


I will look at these, test them, and -- if all goes well -- apply  
them, but it's likely to take me a while to get to them.  In general I  
agree with the principle that routines that can be called very early  
in start-up before thread context is initialized do need to be  
cautious about trying to access that context.  I will just make a  
preliminary comment that it's very hard to see what's going on by  
reading the patches because they consist mostly of changes to non- 
significant whitespace.
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