use strict; use Inline 'C'; $\ = "\n"; my $x; BEGIN { my $n = 100; $x = eval 'sub {' . ('%Foo::;' x $n) . '}'; } print refcount(*Foo::); # prints $n + 2 __END__ __C__ int refcount(SV* x) { return SvREFCNT(x); }