perl 5.8 and malloc (and mod_perl)

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:27:50 +0300
Sergey Matveychuk <sem at ciam.ru> wrote:

> Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > I don't know if the situation changed with perl 5.8, but with 5.6 you
> > have to compile with perls malloc if your application makes use of
> 
>  From lang/perl5.8/Makefile:
> .if defined(WITHOUT_PERL_MALLOC)
> .undef WITH_PERL_MALLOC
> .else
> WITH_PERL_MALLOC=       yes
> .endif
> 
> WITH_PERL_MALLOC is default.

Yes, I know. I was referring to the implementation of signal handlers in
perl, not to being perl malloc the default in our perl 5.8 or not. I
don't think this situation has changed, as I can't think of an
implementation which gets it right without disallowing certain perl
language constructs in signal handlers, but I there are people out there
which are smarter than I am, and I don't want to limit their creativity
by saying it's not possible...

Just a little note: what if a perl application makes use of signal
handlers and at the same time needs a perl without perl malloc...

Bye,
Alexander.

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