At 3:47 PM +0000 12/21/02, Leopold Toetsch (via RT) wrote:
From a reading of the code, this allocates memory within a function that's called during garbage collection. We can't do that. If you want to have a separate pool, or set of pools, that's allocated out of the GC run functions that's fine, but no memory allocations while we're cleaning up.# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #19332] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19332 >I'll send this first to the list for review. This patch changes mark_used(PMC *) so that the PMC field next_for_GC isn't used anymore (it could be removed now, making a PMC one ptr size smaller).
That's the reason for the pointer that's in the PMC structure now, and the reason that we don't trace strings. (Memory savings on the latter, preallocated space in the former) If you want to try an alternate plan, that's fine, but this one we can't use, unfortunately.
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