Hi All,

I am using swig so that i can call my so library from perl. But when perl exits i am getting the following error. 

==644== Warning: bad signal number 0 in sigaction()
==644== Invalid free() / delete / delete[]
==644==    at 0x40057F6: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:325)
==644==    by 0x8072E7F: perl_destruct (in /opt/perl/bin/perl-static)
==644==    by 0x8060D6F: main (in /opt/perl/bin/perl-static)
==644==  Address 0xab79180 is 0 bytes inside data symbol "buffer.17598
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the symbol buffer.17598 is present in on of the so file i am loading. but no reference is passed in or out of c. But still some how perl is getting this reference and trying to free it. How can i stop perl from doing this?

In reply to perl_destruct clearing memory allocated in c library by justin_skariah

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