I was wondering if using valgrind would work. So, i tried it with a very simple c program: 
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(){
  int *p = malloc(sizeof(int));
  free(p);
  return 0;
}

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and returned:

ERROR SUMMARY:
0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 17 from 2)
malloc/free: in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
malloc/free: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 4 bytes allocated.

Everything is ok. Now, i try it using:
/usr/local/bin/valgrind perl -e 'print "Hello, world!\n";'
and i get:

LEAK SUMMARY:
definitely lost: 222050 bytes in 655 blocks.
possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
Use --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory.

Wow. Trying to profile some mixed code, like:
print "Hi, C!\n";
use Inline C;
   waste();
   __END__
   __C__
   void waste(){
      void *p = malloc(sizeof(int));
      //free(p);
      printf("Hi, Perl!\n");
   }

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becomes a hell!

Has anybody tried succesfully valgrind on perl?

In reply to Re: Profiling the C side of an Inline::C module by fauria
in thread Profiling the C side of an Inline::C module by samtregar

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