On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:56:01PM -0500, "Kort, Eric" wrote:
> The perlapi documentation states:
> The return value will be NULL if the operation failed or if the
> value did not need to be actually stored within the array (as in
> the case of tied arrays). Otherwise it can be dereferenced to
> get the original `SV*'. Note that the caller is responsible for
> suitably incrementing the reference count of `val' before the
> call, and decrementing it if the function returned NULL.
I hope I'm not introducing potential memory leaks in my code by not
checking for NULL. (for tied arrays)
> So I want to see if it returned NULL, but I don't know how. If I try:
> svReturnVal = av_store(avArray, 2, svNewVal); //svReturnVal is an SV**
> and then:
> iReturnVal = SvIV(*svReturnVal); //iReturnVal is an int
if (av_store(avArray, 2, svNewVal) == NULL)
SvREFCNT_dec(svNewVal);
Perhaps?
mark
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