newXS memory question...

tomw1975 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh great all knowing Monks...

I have a question related to my memory issue from yesterday...

does this statement

newXS("DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader", boot_DynaLoader, file);
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do memory allocation behind the scenes? if so how would one clear it? some sort of safefree? I have tried researching the

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Re: newXS memory question... by Elian (Parson) on Jul 28, 2003 at 15:06 UTC
Well, it allocates a few structures, but nothing big--that's how XS functions get registered so there are globs and CVs and such involved. The function's defined in op.c if you want to go take a look.	[reply]
Re: newXS memory question... by tomw1975 (Sexton) on Jul 27, 2003 at 20:28 UTC
Kind of ended that one in mid sentence, sorry folks. Would anyone recommend a good book on the Memory manipulation of XS - cant seem to find any answers to my memory issues! I have Extending and Embeding Perl already.... thanks	[reply]