Re: PL/Perl Does not Like vstrings

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 01/04/2012 08:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> How do we tell if it's readonly?
>> SvREADONLY(sv) macro.

> but it doesn't fix the one I found which passes a typeglob to elog():
> do '$foo=1; elog(NOTICE,*foo);' language plperl;

Mmm, I was wondering about that one.

> That still crashes, but doesn't if we use sv_mortalcopy unconditionally.

Unconditional sv_mortalcopy sounds like the thing to do then, but a
comment would help. And if this isn't a Perl bug, I would like to
know what is.

BTW, shouldn't we be making some attempt to drop the result of the
sv_mortalcopy? Or is it just assumed that it will be garbage-collected
before the memory leak gets too bad?

regards, tom lane