On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:33:51PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 02:53:47PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:17:27PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:14:07PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity, why can't threaded perls use it? > > > > > > To be honest I can't remember now. It's disabled > > > #if (defined USE_THREADS || defined PERL_CAPI || defined PERL_OBJECT) > > > Can you think of a reason? All tests pass. Maybe I was just being > > > conservative. > > > > Ah, that's USE_THREADS not USE_ITHREADS. Ancient history. > > Actually, USE_THREADS is normally also defined when USE_ITHREADS is > defined (the original USE_THREADS was renamed USE_5005THREADS).
Ah, ok. > > [...] > > So it seems that xsbypass is always enabled in 5.8+ builds. > > So, I don't think its enabled, but it sounds like it could be. It's now enabled by default and there's an (undocumented) env var to disable it if the need ever arises. Tim.
