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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-10-03 10:46:52 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-10-03 11:02:24 -0700
commit95f567513aaa04ffb8bb9d148aff1a85b1eff161 (patch)
tree4510923e11f5053e3000ae65b6fd2a166f4ff30e
parente2bd2e2b51a3690b0515d3ac5d5d7e350cb446be (diff)
downloadperl-95f567513aaa04ffb8bb9d148aff1a85b1eff161.tar.gz
Avoid downgrading GVs during global destruction
Recently we’ve been getting assertions from gv.t like this: Assertion failed: (SvTYPE(sv) != SVTYPEMASK), function Perl_sv_clear, file sv.c, line 5783. This only happens in non-threaded builds and with PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL set to 2 (as in make test). These started with 13be902 (lvalue-to-glob assignment), but only because of the tests it added. The real cause turns out to be f746176, which introduced gv_try_downgrade. If a subroutine contains an op that references a downgradable GV, then gv_try_downgrade, if called on that GV during global destruction, *might* leave dangling pointers elsewhere; where exactly I wot not. Since memory-saving operations such as this downgrading are questiona- ble anyway durng global destruction, skip it, at least for now.
-rw-r--r--gv.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 11f82a26bc..db9617f534 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -2593,6 +2593,11 @@ Perl_gv_try_downgrade(pTHX_ GV *gv)
HEK *namehek;
SV **gvp;
PERL_ARGS_ASSERT_GV_TRY_DOWNGRADE;
+
+ /* XXX Why and where does this leave dangling pointers during global
+ destruction? */
+ if (PL_dirty) return;
+
if (!(SvREFCNT(gv) == 1 && SvTYPE(gv) == SVt_PVGV && !SvFAKE(gv) &&
!SvOBJECT(gv) && !SvREADONLY(gv) &&
isGV_with_GP(gv) && GvGP(gv) &&