Bug#816280: Binary incompatibility between debugperl and perl

Mon Feb 29 16:07:26 UTC 2016

On 29/02/2016 16:52, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Just to be clear, do you mean you don't think that your issue
> will be fixed by these patches in blead?
>
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/5ca5a62834a7fccb204c7fd4b35a11873d1bdd3b
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0419d9784dfda8adf6980bd60e782b144126dd72
>
> (from https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127212)

This fix should work unless there are other interpreter variables that are 
only enabled with -DDEBUGGING. But I think that my proposal to move debugging 
variables to the end of the struct is better. At least `random_state` which 
can be accessed directly from XS code should be moved forward.

Nick