Re: [PATCH] Perl 5.6.0: VMS piping mods

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:37 PM 3/28/00 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>At 01:52 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Charles Lane wrote:
>
> >+    I'm using LIB$(GET|FREE)_VM here so that we can allocate and deallocate
> >+    inside an AST routine without worrying about reentrancy and which Perl
> >+    memory allocator is being used.
>
>Mixing these with malloc() used to be a no-no; does the fact that you have
>them in an AST routine allow you to dodge that restriction?

Should we just switch over to the LIB$ memory management stuff altogether? 
It'd just require some changes to perl's memory allocator.

                                        Dan

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