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Actually, I have tried making 'value' a mortal. If I do that, I will have to change: 
sv_free(av_delete(array, len, FALSE));

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to 
av_delete(array, len, FALSE);

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otherwise, I get the error 'Attempt to free unreferenced scalar' on FREETMPS call. What this implies is that av_push does not increment the reference count of 'value'. Correct me if I am wrong.

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Re: Re: Re: Embedded Perl - Memory leak
by IlyaM (Parson) on Oct 16, 2003 at 11:58 UTC
    It was long time when I wrote Perl modules in C last time but IIRC av_push does increment the reference count. On the other hand I'm not sure why you need sv_free - av_delete should decrease reference counter of deleted SV itself. Try to add sv_dump() calls to check it yourself.

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