From: Philip Newton Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:32:29 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Re: Storable doc patches X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6fe6778b56c33a355a09b774f5bf0c4986a3341a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: Storable doc patches From: "Philip Newton" Message-Id: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16521 --- diff --git a/ext/Storable/Storable.pm b/ext/Storable/Storable.pm index 7d91395..664f6e7 100644 --- a/ext/Storable/Storable.pm +++ b/ext/Storable/Storable.pm @@ -843,11 +843,11 @@ reference that was used for the key originally to record the value into the hash table), it will work because both references stringify to the same string. -It won't work across a C and C operations, however, -because the addresses in the retrieved objects, which are part of -the stringified references, will probably differ from the original -addresses. The topology of your structure is preserved, but not hidden -semantics like those. +It won't work across a sequence of C and C operations, +however, because the addresses in the retrieved objects, which are +part of the stringified references, will probably differ from the +original addresses. The topology of your structure is preserved, +but not hidden semantics like those. On platforms where it matters, be sure to call C on the descriptors that you pass to Storable functions.