Having learned about asprintf, I was trying to improve/tidy a couple C fragments, but here's a problem with Strawberry:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Inline C => <<'END_OF_C';
#define _GNU_SOURCE
void foo() {
    char *s;
    asprintf(&s, "%s", "foo");
    free(s);    
}
END_OF_C

foo();

__END__

Free to wrong pool 6334e0 not 8c00140021160806 at asprintf.pl line 13.

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This number is frightening. With "free" line disabled, it runs OK, but leaks. In Linux it runs OK as is. Simple and obvious C program compiles and runs OK under same gcc i.e. part of MinGW/Strawberry.

Not sure if some configuration flag can solve the problem, therefore hesitate to report it as "Inline::C" bug, esp. since my C is rudimentary. Didn't find any mention of "asprintf" in whole Inline or Inline::C distributions. I understand "asprintf" is not necessary, but avoiding it doesn't feel right.

In reply to Inline::C & Strawberry: can't free a buffer allocated with asprintf by vr

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