Perl is full of surprises :-) - I'd never heard of it too, or perlapio ( pointed to herein ) <*sigh*> so little time so much to learn ....
Cheers. On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:09:05PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: > > On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Neil Watkiss wrote: > > > Hi Ken, > > > > You shouldn't mix this: > > > >> soldier->name = strdup(name); > > > > with this: > > > >> Safefree(soldier->name); > > > > because strdup() is just a C library function that uses malloc(), and > > Safefree might not be. You want to use savepv(), which is the > > Perl API's > > equivalent that's guaranteed to work with Safefree. > > > > Have a look at 'perldoc perlapi' for more info. > > > > > Wow, I'd never have known that from `perldoc perlapi`. I had to > look at `perldoc perlclib`, which I'd never even *heard* of > before, and which I'd never have found without `grep savepv > /usr/share/man/man1/perl*`. > > I'll be changing this in my own code now too. Thanks for the pointer. > > -Ken
