Re: [TCLCORE] [Fwd: Re: Shimmering and large Tcl_Obj's]

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

miguel sofer wrote:
> To test this matter, I have written a patch that implements this on HEAD 
> and submitted it as FR #1512138 to sourceforge.

I've reviewed the patch and I think it looks largely OK. But we should
*not* document the use of -1 as a signalling value. Keep that info
inside the Tcl library and instead have people call a function (probably
in the internal stubs table) to find out whether the object is being
deleted. That future-proofs us instead of spraying the results of the
hack across some unknown number of libraries. ;-)

(There's one or two comment formatting issues too, but they're trivial.)

Donal.