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Some naive additional B helpers to check the COW status of one SvPV

B::COW provides some naive additional B helpers to check the COW
status of one SvPV.  COW or Copy On Write introduction

A COWed SvPV is sharing its string (the PV) with other SvPVs. It's a
(kind of) Read Only C string, that would be Copied On Write (COW).

More than one SV can share the same PV, but when one PV need to alter
it, it would perform a copy of it, decrease the COWREFCNT counter.

One SV can then drop the COW flag when it's the only one holding a
pointer to the PV.

The COWREFCNT is stored at the end of the PV, after the the "\0".

That value is limited to 255, when we reach 255, a new PV would be
created,

Build dependencies

pkgtools/mktools pkgtools/cwrappers

Runtime dependencies

lang/perl5 lang/perl5

Binary packages

OSArchitectureVersion
NetBSD 10.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64ebp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64ebp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0alphap5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0m68kp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0sh3elp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0sparcp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0vaxp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 10.0vaxp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 10.0_BETAx86_64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 8.0i386p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 8.0i386p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 8.0i386p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 8.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 8.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 8.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 8.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 8.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 8.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0alphap5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0alphap5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv4p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0m68kp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0mips64ebp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sh3elp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sh3elp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sparc64p5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sparcp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sparcp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0vaxp5-B-COW-0.004nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0vaxp5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.0vaxp5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64p5-B-COW-0.004nb4.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64p5-B-COW-0.007.tgz

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