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-Catching memory leaks in XS +Newbie Friendly Perl Projects

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 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
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A seed needs soft soil and water to grow
This is a reply to szabgab's post on how to get newbies interested in Perl modules. Being a newbie in Perl myself I thought I should take a shot.
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+I was thinking you can make projects more accessible to newbies by having a step by step plan included with where they need to look. For example for docs of SDL_perl:
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  1. Look at SDL docs [link]
    2. +
  2. See where SDL_perl is using the same functions [link] and the docs to this file [link]
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  3. Use the pod format to add it to the source [link to using pod]
    4. +
  4. {BONUS} Come up with tutorial or cookbook [link to example]
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  5. Submit code to github [link] or email them to me [link]
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    6. +

+Basically assume nothing is known. I know this may seem demeaning but I am a newbie to Perl and sometimes I hate looking for crust (docs). I call it crust because a crust is useful for me to eat a pizza slice, but it has no flavor .
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+--yapgh
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