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Yeah. Saw that, but it doesn't help much. The vagueness of

Similarly, results returned by XSUBs (which are pushed on the stack) are often made mortal.

leaves me wondering if I should mortalise every SV I return from XS code? What about from Inline C code? How about the RV that you bless and set into the object that you return a reference to when using Inline C OO? Or the reference itself?

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