Re: [perl #19349] [PATCH] mark PMCs - take #2

[Dan Sugalski]

At 1:50 PM +0000 12/22/02, Leopold Toetsch (via RT) wrote:

Here is another approach, to finally unify the marking routines:
- next_for_GC remains what it is
- instead of current_end_of_list and a return value, mark_used() uuses
   a file static mark_ptr. As we don't have recursive DOD runs, this
   ought to be safe.

Nope. Threads. Two interpreters can be DODing at the same time. Static variables aren't tenable for much of anything with threads... :(
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Dan

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