in reply to Re^5: XS malloc and free (whose)
in thread XS malloc and free

That would work. Just make sure you comment both the little file and wherever you call it from, explaining why you've stuck this indirection wrapper around a CRT call and mentioning that noone must ever include XSUB.h in there. Otherwise someone is going to be very confused by the apparent duplication, or worse back to square one, a year or so from now :)

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