Re: [ID 20000118.004] DynaLoader doesn't dlclose XS code on interpreter

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:16:00AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > > > Couldn't it be done in an END block inside DynaLoader?
> > 
> > Too early.  The only safe place (if any) should be
> > after-the-end-of-global-destruction (assuming the list is kept in a C
> > structure, thus is indestructible).
> 
> Good point, but I'm not so sure. Objects have been cleaned, via
> sv_clean_objs(), before the END blocks are called.  (Umm, I don't see
> any mention in the docs that objects will have been destroyed before
> END blocks are called.)

Do not think so:

perl -wle 'sub a::new {bless [],"a"}; my $a="a"->new;END{print "<$a>"}'
<a=ARRAY(0xe2064)>

> If destruct_level==0 then that's just about the last thing
> perl_destruct() does before calling return.

destruct_level==0 has nothing to do with embedding anyway...

Ilya

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Follow-Ups from:

Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>

References to:

Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@uk.sun.com>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>

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