On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, bulk 88 <bul...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> It's possible the reason it wasn't crashing on your machine is that >> your Perl is configured to use malloc/free instead of Perl's own >> allocator. >> >> You can figure that out by checking perl -V for usemymalloc. >> >> If it's "=n", Perl is using whatever native calls are available on your >> system. >> >> If it's "=y", Perl is using its own internal wrapper. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Matthew Horsfall (alh) > > That information should not be used. Whatever implements Newx and > Safefree under the hood should be opaque. Win32 Perl has > "usemymalloc=n", but a Newx block isn't a malloc block.
I didn't say it was. I was merely trying to explain why it might crash on one system and not another. -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
