I have 1 error and 1 warning messages (see below) for the following scripts with "A.pl" and "B.pm".

_A.pl_
...
my $dummy=1;
threads->create("B::c", ($dummy));
...


_B.pm_
...
sub c{...}
...

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ERROR_ "Scalars leaked: 1" occurs for each ref or a hash (replace $dummy with %dummy in above script) that is passed as argument to "B::c".

WARNING_ "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" always happens in above example when we pass a variable (of any type) in one process to a sub in another module when it is run as a thread.

In all above cases, arguments have been initialized before creating threads. In "B::c", it also doesn't matter if those arguments appear as lef-side or right-side (the semaphore and queue definitely change their content and I also tried not to use any argument in "B::c" or just print out some scalar or size of some non-scalar.).

So, is this a problem of my script or a bug? I did find there is memory leak by checking w/ valgrind, though I haven't check in very detail. Any comments?


Thanks!

System:
perl v5.8.8 built for i686-linux-thread-multi
2.6.15-gentoo linux

In reply to "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" and "Scalars leaked: 1" ? by licht

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