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in thread Prototypes and hand-written MMD

I seem to recall that Error was prone to this under some older versions of Perl. perrin wrote about it in Re: Re2: Learning how to use the Error module by example.

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Re^4: Prototypes and hand-written MMD
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 11, 2006 at 20:47 UTC
    I'm seeing the code given there leak on 5.6.2 and 5.8.0, but not 5.8.1 and on.
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      Out of interest, is the 5.6.x line now dead, or is there likely to be another release?

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        I think it depends on somebody being motivated enough to go through the thousands of patches and decide which would qualify.
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      Does this mean that there was a patch in the 5.8.1 branch? That's odd because the Changes for 5.8.1 don't mention a fix for that particular issue. I'm not complaining - I have code that ends up using that kind of construct and it's nice to know that 5.8.1+ doesn't have that memory leak. I'd just like to have some confirmation from p5p that this was indeed solved . . . on purpose. :-)
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