Revert ‘Used pad name lists for pad ids’
This reverts commit
8771da69db30134352181c38401c7e50753a7ee8.
Pad lists need to carry IDs around with them, so that when something
tries to close over a pad, it is possible to confirm that the right
pad is being closed over (either the original outer pad, or a clone of
it). (See the commit message of
db4cf31d1, in which commit I added an
ID to the padlist struct.)
In
8771da69 I found that I could use the memory address of the pad’s
name list (name lists are shared) and avoid the extra field.
Some time after
8771da69 I realised that a pad list could be freed,
and the same address reused for another pad list, so using a memory
address may not be so wise. I thought it highly unlikely, though, and
put it on the back burner.
I have just run into that. t/comp/form_scope.t is now failing
for me with test 13, added by
db4cf31d1. It bisects to
3d6de2cd1
(PERL_PADNAME_MINIMAL), but that’s a red herring. Trivial changes
to the script make the problem go away. And it only happens on non-
debugging builds, and only on my machine. Stepping through with gdb
shows that the format-cloning is following the format prototype’s out-
side pointer and confirming that it is has the correct pad (yes, the
memory addresses are the same), which I know it doesn’t, because I can
see what the test is doing.
While generation numbers can still fall afoul of the same problem, it
is much less likely.
Anyway, the worst thing about
8771da69 is the typo in the first word
of the commit message.