At 11:21 PM +0200 4/15/02, Peter Gibbs wrote:
> > Is this still needed with the update to Parrot_allocate to use
>> buffers? I think I took care of that.
>
>No, Parrot_allocate still sets buflen to the original requested 'size'; not
>the inflated 'req_size' - I'm not sure what you intended.
I intended it to return the inflated size. I just checked in a patch
to do that.
>as the COW code depends on it - it needs to allocate a flag byte
>within the buffer but outside the used space
This feels excessively hackish. It's OK if we were welding in COW to
an existing code base, but we're not--if we put it in, we put it in
right.
Right, in this case, is using the COW flag bit in the Buffer
structure and making the changes to the appropriate string_*
functions to use it, I think.
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