This is leaking since Change 26530.

http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/26530: 

Change 26530 by nicholas@nicholas-saigo on 2005/12/30 01:08:46

	RMAGIC on symbol tables is bad, m'kay.
	Allow hashes (and therefore all symbol tables) to store the
	backreference array in the hv_aux structure, and thereby undo the
	performance damage of 24966, which resulted in 60% of all hash lookups
	trying to mg_find tiehash magic.

One instance of this in the RT queue of perl: #56908: DBI memory leak

Dave Mitchell commited a change for this: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/34209: 

Change 34209 by davem@davem-pigeon on 2008/08/20 23:15:36

	perl #56908 DBI memory leak in 5.10.0 due to change 26530
	
	A weakref to a HV would leak, because the xhv_backreferences
	array is created with a refcount of 2 (to avoid premature freeing
	during global destruction), but the RC was only decremented once
	when the parent HV was freed.
	Also, when thread cloned, the new array was being created with a
	RC of 1, rather than 2, which coincidentally worked due to the
	first bug.

but testing this change and trying to wrap it in a good test case is still on my todo list.

(Running it with a blead after Change 34209 shows no leak)

In reply to Re: Memory leaks and circular references by Animator
in thread Memory leaks and circular references by jdrago_999

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