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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2022-01-08 21:08:19 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2022-01-12 20:12:50 +0000
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PERL_SET_CONTEXT(t) needs to set PL_current_context from C++ too
We want to use C11 thread local storage where possible, as its read overhead is lower. However C++ uses incompatible syntax for TLS, so we have to hide the variable from C++ extensions, and have the read code "fall back" to the pthread_getspecific() approach. However, C++ extensions also need to be able to call PERL_SET_CONTEXT(t) and have everything still work the same as C extensions. Hence they *also* need to set PL_current_context - a variable that has to be hidden from them. Hence change the version of the PERL_SET_CONTEXT macro used by C++ extensions from inline code to a call to Perl_set_context(), and have that set PL_current_context (when used). Technically this commit also fixes a bug in that Perl_set_context() is API and should have been setting PL_current_context since that variable was first introduced. In practice, likely nothing uses this API, as there is no code on CPAN that calls it, and the macro PERL_SET_CONTEXT() is much more prominent.
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