Re: remarks WRT clone

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:59 PM +0100 12/17/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
In former days and before YAPC::EU I changed the original clone 
vtable, which was IIRC:
  PMC* clone()   # return new clone of pmc
to the now existing form, which gets an uninitialized destination 
PMC. This change was at that time necessary because of reasons 
described in
Fdocs/dev/infant.dev keyword Variant 2: Anchor early, anchor often.

This is solved, stackwalking during DOD works, so /me thinks, that 
we can use again the original signature of the clone vtable. This 
does also simplify switching clone to Parrot_clone (the real and 
final clone via freeze/thaw), which just happens to return a newly 
created PMC.
Works. Go for it.
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remarks WRT clone

[Leopold Toetsch]

In former days and before YAPC::EU I changed the original clone vtable, 
which was IIRC:
  PMC* clone()   # return new clone of pmc
to the now existing form, which gets an uninitialized destination PMC. 
This change was at that time necessary because of reasons described in
Fdocs/dev/infant.dev keyword Variant 2: Anchor early, anchor often.

This is solved, stackwalking during DOD works, so /me thinks, that we 
can use again the original signature of the clone vtable. This does also 
simplify switching clone to Parrot_clone (the real and final clone via 
freeze/thaw), which just happens to return a newly created PMC.

leo