Someone asked about the Perl memory leak I spotted. Rather than try to put code into a /msg, I'll just include it here, that way anyone can point out that I'm mistaken. From line 3113 of op.c, Perl v5.8.0: 

            repointer = newSViv(0);
            av_push(PL_regex_padav,SvREFCNT_inc(repointer));

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newSViv() gives a ref count of 1. av_push() doesn't change ref count so the SvREFCNT_inc() leaves a ref count of 2 but repointer is not subsequently used so we've made one reference to it so we've got a memory leak.

I'm hoping the person who asked will perlbug this and save me the bother (not talking to p5p is always an advantage, IMO), but we'll see what happens. :)

- tye        

In reply to Re^8: perlembed: mortalize an AV or not (Perl leak) by tye
in thread perlembed: mortalize an AV, get "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" - don't mortalize, leaks memory by edan

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