Re^2: XS: EXTEND/mPUSHi

Thanks for the very nice explanation. I was concerned about using PUTBACK myself as I thought t would be duplicating the one in the wrapper sub. On closer inspection I've realised that the one in the wrapper sub will never be reached:

        /* must have used dXSARGS; list context implied */
    return; /* assume stack size is correct */                 ### Her
+e
#line 128 "monkeys.c"
    PUTBACK;
    return;
    }
}
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Which make me wonder why it (and the second return), are there in the first place?

I'm also lost to understand the derivation of the name "PUTBACK". It certainly isn't intuitive (to me) as a term that means 'remember how many items were added to the stack'.

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Re^3: XS: EXTEND/mPUSHi by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 26, 2011 at 18:19 UTC
I agree. It's probably short for "put `sp` (aka `SP`) back into `PL_stack_sp`" (as it does `PL_stack_sp = sp`), but it's not a very useful name.	[reply] [d/l] [select]