Re^3: Bare-bones embedding and memory leakage

why do I need PUSHMARK(SP)

You don't need PUSHMARK, and in fact using it there is wrong. You only need it when the the thing you're calling expects a list of args on the stack (eg when calling call_pv()). Here, you're using eval_pv(), which doesn't expect a list of args, so using it is wrong.

VmSize of around 4 kB every million iteration

IIRC, there was a bug that caused every 65536th allocated op not to be freed; this is fixed in recent Perls. You don't say which version you're using, but try it with something like 5.8.6 and see if the residual leak goes away.

Dave.

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Re^4: Bare-bones embedding and memory leakage by polettix (Vicar) on Mar 17, 2005 at 13:44 UTC
Thank you for the advice. I'll make penance in my cell to espiate my lack of carefulness in providing useful information to the Wise Monks. As a novice, I ask you comprehension for being still stuck on ancient perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux; I'll try to remedy ASAP and rescue myself. --Flavio	[reply]
Re^4: Bare-bones embedding and memory leakage by polettix (Vicar) on Mar 18, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
Woah, I'm a happy novice now! I just installed the last stable version of Perl (according to your suggestion) and eventually managed to get rid of the memory loss problem! Incidentally, I also realised (thanks to the compiler) that the dSP line was superfluous as well in my do_something function. -- Don't fool yourself.	[reply]