Reset method caches when GPs are shared
The new MRO stuff in 5.10 made PL_sub_generation++ mostly unnecessary,
and almost all uses of it were replaced with mro_method_changed_in.
There is only one problem: That doesn’t actually work properly. After
glob-to-glob assignment (*foo = *bar), both globs share the same GP
(glob pointer, or list of glob slots). But there is no list of GVs
associated with any GP. So there is no way, given a GV whose GP
is shared, to find out what other classes might need their method
caches reset.
sub B::b { "b" }
*A::b = *B::b;
@C::ISA = "A";
print C->b, "\n"; # should print "b"
eval 'sub B::b { "c" }';
print C->b, "\n"; # should print "c"
__END__
$ perl5.8.9 foo
b
c
$ perl5.10.0 foo
b
b
And it continues up to 5.16.x.
If a GP is shared, then those places where mro_method_changed_in is
called after the GP has been modified must do PL_sub_generation++
instead if the GP is shared, which can be detected through its refer-
ence count.