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authorAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2009-06-05 20:32:27 +0000
committerAndrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>2009-06-05 20:32:27 +0000
commit1236e18563b7283936e22dd74abb6195e54b0ed9 (patch)
tree4dc90ca3e2ccf1e5d8d6425971adca5a1eaf6e3e /src
parentf5f3d1440a6f152859d601ee3c9230835d0dcc4f (diff)
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Adjust recent PERL_SYS_INIT3 call to avoid platforms where it might fail, and to remove compilation warning. Backpatch the release 7.4
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/pl/plperl/plperl.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
index 8937e2ddbc9..d8edde2fdf4 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/**********************************************************************
* plperl.c - perl as a procedural language for PostgreSQL
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.123.2.5 2009/06/04 16:00:33 adunstan Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c,v 1.123.2.6 2009/06/05 20:32:27 adunstan Exp $
*
**********************************************************************/
@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ plperl_init_interp(void)
int nargs = 3;
+ char *dummy_perl_env[1] = { NULL };
+
#ifdef WIN32
/*
@@ -424,10 +426,19 @@ plperl_init_interp(void)
save_time = loc ? pstrdup(loc) : NULL;
#endif
-#ifdef PERL_SYS_INIT3
+ /****
+ * The perl API docs state that PERL_SYS_INIT3 should be called before
+ * allocating interprters. Unfortunately, on some platforms this fails
+ * in the Perl_do_taint() routine, which is called when the platform is
+ * using the system's malloc() instead of perl's own. Other platforms,
+ * notably Windows, fail if PERL_SYS_INIT3 is not called. So we call it
+ * if it's available, unless perl is using the system malloc(), which is
+ * true when MYMALLOC is set.
+ */
+#if defined(PERL_SYS_INIT3) && !defined(MYMALLOC)
/* only call this the first time through, as per perlembed man page */
if (interp_state == INTERP_NONE)
- PERL_SYS_INIT3(&nargs, (char ***) &embedding, NULL);
+ PERL_SYS_INIT3(&nargs, (char ***)&embedding, (char***)&dummy_perl_env);
#endif
plperl_held_interp = perl_alloc();