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-Catching memory leaks in XS
+New build system! Needs testing!
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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'/></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>Rome was not built,</i></span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>in one day,</i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>&nbsp;feature creep,</i></span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>existed back then too.</i></span></i><br />
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+<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://github.com/kmx">kmx</a>++ recently worked on a brand new Build system for Alien::SDL and SDL_perl. We have managed to test it in Windows and Linux environments. We would still appreciate testing on all&nbsp;environments. However none of us have a shiny Mac to try this on. So if you have a Mac please consider testing the following:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
+</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/Alien_SDL/tarball/master">Alien::SDL</a>&nbsp;</span></i></li>
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+<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">install it</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">select build by source</span></i></li>
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+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tarball/redesign">SDL::perl</a></span></i></li>
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+<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Extract it</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build.PL</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">See if Bundling works ( Maybe Brian's <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2010/02/i-almost-have-sdl-perl-working-on-snow-leopard.html">article</a>&nbsp;may help )</span></i></li>
+</ul></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Thank you very much!</span></i><br />
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+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">EDIT:&nbsp;</span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">&nbsp;After some&nbsp; reports back we have found out that SDL_gfx needs&nbsp;</span></i><br />
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+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/SDL_gfx#64Bit</span></i><br />
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+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">We are working to get this done.</span></i></div></div><i></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7073479532507652908?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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