On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:20:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Interesting. Worrisome. > > > > I presume the intent of TARGET is to save overhead of allocating scalars. > > As the problem seems to be endemic, is the solution to create a new function > > (er, or macro) that clears all state, and use that in place of things like > > the > > piecemeal utf8 flag clearing. > > Yuk.
Yuk is my suggestion? Or yuk is the possibility of an endemic bug? > Just as a quick 'what if' test, I tried adding SvOK_off() to dTARGET > and it immediately fell over, eg > So I presume we'd have to to it on a case-by-case basis. Bah. That's worse than a single class of bug. Nicholas Clark
