Your handling of the perl array looks correct. You create a new AV with
a refcount of one. You add a bunch of scalars to the array, each of
which is created with a refcount of 1. Crucially, you handle the
arrayref correctly, creating a single reference which does not increase
the refcount of the AV. This one arrayref ends up on the stack,
mortalized via the a call to sv_2mortal from the OUTPUT/RETVAL
apparatus. Assuming for the sake of simplicity that we don't copy
anything out of @_, when that mortalized ref comes due, your array and
all of its members should fall like dominoes.
Thank you. One less place to look at ;)
I think you'll need to look elsewhere. Coincidentally, I'm debugging
memory leaks right this moment using valgrind. If you have access to a
Linux system, I'd strongly recommend you give it a try.
Unfortunately, I think I will need to do that ;)
Cheers
ambs
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
"Beware of bugs in the above code;
I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
--- Donald Knuth
