Merge core-8-6-branch. Update outdated comment (cherry-pick [d5dec2b0514639f44929cbbba9c4130798a8a54a|d5dec2b051])

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/generic/tclPanic.c b/generic/tclPanic.c
index b032449..b03ad41 100644
--- a/generic/tclPanic.c
+++ b/generic/tclPanic.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Tcl_PanicVA(
 	__builtin_trap();
 #   elif defined(_WIN64)
 	__debugbreak();
-#   elif defined(_MSC_VER)
+#   elif defined(_MSC_VER) && defined (_M_IX86)
 	_asm {int 3}
 #   else
 	DebugBreak();
diff --git a/generic/tclPkg.c b/generic/tclPkg.c
index 3b0554a..eb4dc9b 100644
--- a/generic/tclPkg.c
+++ b/generic/tclPkg.c
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ Tcl_PkgRequireEx(
 	 *
 	 * Second, how does this work? If we reach this point, then the global
 	 * variable tclEmptyStringRep has the value NULL. Compare that with
-	 * the definition of tclEmptyStringRep near the top of the file
-	 * generic/tclObj.c. It clearly should not have the value NULL; it
+	 * the definition of tclEmptyStringRep near the top of this file.
+	 * It clearly should not have the value NULL; it
 	 * should point to the char tclEmptyString. If we see it having the
 	 * value NULL, then somehow we are seeing a Tcl library that isn't
 	 * completely initialized, and that's an indicator for the error
@@ -348,18 +348,11 @@ Tcl_PkgRequireEx(
 	 * After all, two Tcl libraries can't be a good thing!)
 	 *
 	 * Trouble is that's going to be tricky. We're now using a Tcl library
-	 * that's not fully initialized. In particular, it doesn't have a
-	 * proper value for tclEmptyStringRep. The Tcl_Obj system heavily
-	 * depends on the value of tclEmptyStringRep and all of Tcl depends
-	 * (increasingly) on the Tcl_Obj system, we need to correct that flaw
-	 * before making the calls to set the interpreter result to the error
-	 * message. That's the only flaw corrected; other problems with
-	 * initialization of the Tcl library are not remedied, so be very
-	 * careful about adding any other calls here without checking how they
-	 * behave when initialization is incomplete.
+	 * that's not fully initialized. Functions in it may not work
+	 * reliably, so be very careful about adding any other calls here
+	 * without checking how they behave when initialization is incomplete.
 	 */
 
-	tclEmptyStringRep = &tclEmptyString;
 	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
 		"Cannot load package \"%s\" in standalone executable:"
 		" This package is not compiled with stub support", name));