Muppet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Steve Hay said:
>> So: I've entrusted managemnt of foo's memory to Perl by placing it in
>> the SV, but I still have to free up anything else that was allocated and
>> is pointed to from within foo. Is there any way to have Perl free the
>> members of foo when it frees foo, so that the whole struct is freed
>> instead of just the outer bit?
>
>if it's a blessed SV, so you can set up a DESTROY method. otherwise, you'll
>need to use a magic virtual table. it's described in perlguts ('Magic
>Variables') and the Embedding and Extending Perl book.
Tk does exactly this kind of thing, to create "objects" for
XEvent structs, as it is an object it cleans up by blessing.
I think I have used the vtable trick as well.
