-Catching memory leaks in XS +A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )
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So I am trying to find and plug memory leaks in SDL perl. Most of the memory leaks occur because in XS a reference is still held. One very expensive mem leak was caught by TELS really early on here. The problem occurs where in XS there is
Here is a in code example lines 1082 on.
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 .
Any guidance is helpful.
--yapgh
I slay dragons, yonder
So I am trying to find and plug memory leaks in SDL perl. Most of the memory leaks occur because in XS a reference is still held. One very expensive mem leak was caught by TELS really early on here. The problem occurs where in XS there is
RETVAL = (cast *) safemalloc( ... );and safefree(...) is never called.
Here is a in code example lines 1082 on.
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 .
Any guidance is helpful.
--yapgh
