Re: [perl #41583] Tail calls from within vtable methods broken

I tried to apply Bram's patch from last year, but it had a lot of fuzz (especially related to the removal of register stacks). Here's what I ended up with. It doesn't work, so I'm not applying it as it is... but if there's still a problem, this might be a better starting point. -- c === incl

Re: [perl #41583] Tail calls from within vtable methods broken

I'm almost done with a different patch that preserves the parent context for the purpose of returning values into it. All further tailcalled contexts are freed as normal. That's pretty vague, but it's easier just to see the code. I just haven't had time to finish and release it. Thanks, Alek S

Re: [perl #41583] Tail calls from within vtable methods broken

Bram Geron (via RT) wrote: Tail calls from within v-table methods are broken, the tail-called sub (or method) will not return correct values. When method A tailcalls sub B, B's set_returns stores its opcode number (and with it, which registers should be returned), but the low-level vtable code g

[perl #41583] Tail calls from within vtable methods broken

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