On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 7:29 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 02:20:59AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > As I understand it, this function is included in the public (at least, it is > > declared EXT, so it should not be hidden) PL_check array (several times, the > > first time at index 2), so I believe something like: > > #define Perl_ck_fun (PL_check[2]) > > should work. > > That seems possible, although it's a bit of a hack to misuse the array > like this: > > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/ccfa6b533228ad41e4dbc5576cd43081b8fd2a13/opcode.h#L1431 > > I suppose if polymake is going to fiddle with Perl internals anyway, > then why not. Thank you very much, Kevin and Rich, for the hints. I decided to see if polymake could be made to work with perl 5.38.0 after all. It turns out that polymake calls quite a few functions that are now hidden. However, the function prototypes are still included in public headers, so that did not become apparent until link time. I have been able to find pointers to most of them (mostly in PL_ppaddr). A few gave me some trouble: Perl_keyword Perl_list Perl_save_pushptrptr Perl_scalar Perl_yyerror For each of those, I included the upstream perl implementations (nearly) verbatim in the polymake code. Yuck. But it seems to "work". I am now encountering the kinds of problems upstream would have faced with perl 5.38.0 anyway, even without functions becoming hidden. For example, I just adapted the code to this change in Perl_anoncode: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20290. There are probably more issues. Whether all of them can be addressed remains to be seen. However, I will not orphan or retire any packages for now. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue