On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Jeremy White wrote:
Is there a way to get hold of the SV for $variable and manipulate
it via XS?
Since it's a lexical, no. You can probably get away with an xsub
that returns a reference to an SV allocated and stored in your XS
file, like this:
Foo.xs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
static SV * the_foo;
MODULE = Foo PACKAGE = FOO
SV * get (class)
CODE:
if (!the_foo)
the_foo = newSV ();
RETVAL = newRV (the_foo);
OUTPUT
RETVAL
# more functions that use the_foo
Foo.pm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
{
sub mysub {
my $fooref = Foo->get;
$$fooref = "foo!";
}
}
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