On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:30:32AM -0500, Mike Pomraning wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Dave Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:26:41AM -0500, Mike Pomraning wrote:
> >> The threads::shared POD warns:
> >>
> >> [A shared] object's destructor may get called multiple times, once
> >> for each thread's scope exit.
> >>
> >> Is this caution still accurate?
> >>
> >> Beginning with perl 5.8.9 / threads 1.71 / threads::shared 1.27 I
> >> cannot reproduce the behavior. (5.8.8 does destroy objects multiple
> >> times for me, however.)
> >
> > Given that the warning text was removed in the 5.8.9 POD, I think that
> > it's fair to assume the issue has been fixed.
>
> Sorry, which POD is that?
>
> That warning ("destructor may get called multiple times") appears in
> threads-shared-1.43 [1], which ships with 5.18.0. FWIW, every previous
> maint release I have also contains that text.
Sorry, my mistake. Between 5.8.8 and 5.8.9 the text was moved from the
=item share VARIABLE
section to the
=head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
section
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