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diff --git a/pod/perlintern.pod b/pod/perlintern.pod index 50f3d51af9..48a433a8ac 100644 --- a/pod/perlintern.pod +++ b/pod/perlintern.pod @@ -400,6 +400,10 @@ created even in rvalue contexts. C<flags> is not used at present but available for future extension to allow selecting particular classes of magical variable. +Currently assumes that C<name> is NUL terminated (as well as len being valid). +This assumption is met by all callers within the perl core, which all pass +pointers returned by SvPV. + bool is_gv_magical(char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags) =for hackers |