pike.git/ src/ modules/ Perl/ README.txt

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2002-04-07

2002-04-07 15:05:49 by Leif Stensson <leif@lysator.liu.se>

A file to collect various notes about the Perl support.

Rev: src/modules/Perl/README.txt:1.1

1: + This file contains various notes about the Perl support. + ( $Id: README.txt,v 1.1 2002/04/07 14:54:03 leif Exp $ )    -  + PERL 5.6.x: +  The semantics of Perl's embedding interface seems to be in flux, changing +  a bit between versions; the most substantial problem with this that I've +  noticed is that Perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 have a tendency to cause a core +  dump when trying to create a second instance of a Perl interpreter +  from Pike. This doesn't seem to happen with either Perl 5.005_03 or +  5.7.3, however, even when compiling with the exact same Pike-to-Perl +  glue code that failed for Perl 5.6.x. +  + THREAD SUPPORT: +  A Perl compiled with the Perl thread support causes things to change +  in how certain include files behave, which in turn can cause the +  compilation of Pike with Perl support to fail with errors like "`thr' +  undeclared" when expanding the Perl dSP macro. Searching some mail +  archives yields suggestions that "`thr' undeclared" errors can be +  cured by adding a dTHR, but dTHR is the first thing done by the dSP +  macro, and adding an explicit dTHR right before the dSP did (predictably) +  not help when I tried it. And I haven't had the time to investigate +  this very much. +  + MULTIPLICITY: +  Using the Pike Perl support with Perls where MULTIPLICITY is enabled +  is largely uncharted territory, although it should work in theory. +  + RUNNING PIKE INTERACTIVELY: +  When running Pike interactively, remember that new versions of the +  interactive frontend Hilfe keeps a history of results of evaluation of +  previous commands. This means that objects that are referenced from +  the history, in particular the Perl interpreter object, are not freed +  until they fall out of the history list. Since there can only be one +  Perl interpreter object alive at the same time (unless Perl has been +  compiled with MULTIPLICITY enabled; see the note about this above), +  this may force you to empty the history list or disable the history +  feature if you need to create a new Perl interpreter object during the +  same Hilfe session.   Newline at end of file added.