[perl #46703] [TODO] [C] Fix ref_count handling for exception_handlers

Christoph Otto via RT parrotbug-followup at parrotcode.org
Tue Apr 21 22:00:03 UTC 2009


On Mon Apr 20 12:30:04 2009, cotto wrote:
> On Mon Apr 20 04:19:36 2009, bacek wrote:
> > On Mon Feb 02 08:19:30 2009, Whiteknight wrote:
> > > On Mon Oct 22 10:48:56 2007, pcoch wrote:
> > > > In src/pmc/exception_handler.pmc there is the todo item:
> > 
> > > aren't exception_handlers PMCs? If so, they wouldn't have a ref count,
> > > they would be GC'd and not collected prematurely. Is this ticket still
> > > an issue?
> > 
> > +1 for rejecting ticket.
> > 
> 
> Removing ExceptionHandler's destroy VTABLE function causes no test
> failures, so it looks like the comment no longer applies.  The attached
> patch takes care of this, but probably shouldn't be applied until after
> the 1.1 release tomorrow.  Once that's done, this ticket can be resolved.

The patch was applied as r38257, so this ticket is resolved.


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