From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:55:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that the examples for the structure copying bug example are no
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Note that the examples for the structure copying bug example are no
longer relevant because of the XPVGV re-ordering.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29662
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diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c
index 6dd53b7..a98c70b 100644
--- a/sv.c
+++ b/sv.c
@@ -1178,7 +1178,9 @@ Perl_sv_upgrade(pTHX_ register SV *sv, svtype new_type)
 
        (In fact, GP ends up pointing at a previous GP structure, because the
        principle cause of the padding in XPVMG getting garbage is a copy of
-       sizeof(XPVMG) bytes from a XPVGV structure in sv_unglob)
+       sizeof(XPVMG) bytes from a XPVGV structure in sv_unglob. Right now
+       this happens to be moot because XPVGV has been re-ordered, with GP
+       no longer after STASH)
 
        So we are careful and work out the size of used parts of all the
        structures.  */