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-Catching memory leaks in XS
+Thanks nothingmuch, and updates
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>&nbsp;I slay dragons, yonder</i></div><br />So I am trying to find and plug memory leaks in SDL perl. Most of the <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49084">memory leaks</a> occur because in XS a reference is still held. One very expensive mem leak was caught by TELS really early on <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17976">here</a>. The problem occurs where in XS there is<br /><br /><blockquote><i>RETVAL</i><i> = (cast *) safemalloc( ... );</i></blockquote>&nbsp;and safefree(...) is never called.<br />Here is a in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/63ebaa682697728f5946f700a2b2c12534b1b821/src/SDL.xs">code example</a> lines 1082 on. <br /><br />My question is how I can mitigate these memory leaks? One idea I had was to store all malloc'd pointers to an array that is safefree'd on DESTROY or hooked into perl GC somehow .<br /><br /><br />Any guidance is helpful.<br /><br /><i>--yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7742659740534179607?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>struggle,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>live,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span id="goog_1253289394523"></span><span id="goog_1253289394524"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>cease,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>die</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">After a struggling with XS and opaque C structs in the experimental SDL::Rect for a long time. <a href="http://blog.woobling.org/2009/09/hackathon-summary.html">Nothingmuch </a>comes along and solves my problem with this beautiful module<a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Enuffin/XS-Object-Magic-0.02/"> XS::Object::Magic</a>. So I will start moving my ugly XS to Magic Land.<br />
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+<b>SDL Perl Tutorials</b><br />
+<br />
+This past week I have been working on the sorry state of SDL Perl tutorials. Currently I am working on a <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL">Tetris Clone</a>. I am hoping to have it done by next Thrusday for TPM meeting. This tutorial is a mix of several tutorials I <a href="http://ezide.com/games/writing-games.html">found online</a>. Another <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/2009/09/msg1446.html">Lunar Lander tutorial</a> has been submitted by Nelson Ferraz.<br />
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+If anyone has any really good tutorials for game development (regardless of language) or even request of tutorials. Send it my way I will look into them.<br />
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+<b>New SDL Perl site</b><br />
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+Also we have begin work on a new site. It is still needs work. <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/">New Site</a>.<br />
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+<i>--yapgh</i> <br />
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+</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1314526975514787247?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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