@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek Stephen 'Stennie' Steneker - Spelling corrections. + +Chocolateboy + - Advice on $^H, %^H, and other dark and terrible magicks. AUTHORS @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Revision history for Fatal * Fixed bug in recv.t which resulted in an incorrect number of skipped tests on systems using socketpair emulation. + * Fixed a bug that would cause unwanted interactions between + autodie and autobox. (5.8) + 1.10_05 Sun Jun 15 15:46:38 AUSEST 2008 * Kludgy support for Perl 5.8 using Scope::Guard and dark and terrible magicks taken from namespace::clean. Changes @@ -211,9 +211,14 @@ sub import { # Dark magic to have autodie work under 5.8 # Copied from namespace::clean, that copied it from # autodie, that found it on an ancient scroll written - # in blood. Honestly, I have no idea how it works. + # in blood. - $^H |= 0x120000; + # This magic bit causes %^H to be lexically scoped. + # TODO - Apparently this *can* leak across file boundries, + # and needs to be investigated. Chocolateboy's 'autobox' + # uses a workaround to detect this. + + $^H |= 0x020000; # Our package guard gets invoked when we leave our lexical # scope. lib/Fatal.pm b2c74be1d267f23587f6b8ce770b9df8863b9aea Paul Fenwick pjf@perltraining.com.au http://github.com/pfenwick/autodie/commit/113251f8d886bc7f48ed72704162cb245e4f41a0 113251f8d886bc7f48ed72704162cb245e4f41a0 2008-06-15T05:54:52-07:00 2008-06-15T05:54:52-07:00 Fixed a bug that would cause unwanted interactions between autodie and autobox. affeed6f7304b6eff3ab584e5b53182e9387d088 Paul Fenwick pjf@perltraining.com.au