Okay. Ignore the previous reply. The penny has dropped.
I can't store a reference to an SV allocated by perl inside my struct, because when a thread ends, the referenced SV will be GC'd and I'll end up holding a reference to a freed scalar.
Your fix is to allocate an SV yourself, and assign a reference to it into the struct. And the set() copies teh contents of the inbound SV, not assign a reference to it.
The code in the DESTROY() method is there to clean up the SV you allocated, but the TODO is because you haven't found, (or have, but haven't yet implemented), a mechanism to decide when to free the struct and it's contents. I think I see a way to do that.
I think this gives me what I need. For that, and your time, I thank you.
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