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-Catching memory leaks in XS
+Development Update
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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>Short and Sweet</i><br />
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+Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br />
+<ul><li> SDL::Video at 97% </li>
+<li> SDL::Events at 25% </li>
+<li> ~1000 tests cases passing on Windows and Linux </li>
+</ul><br />
+<a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/start/1"><img alt="SDL Smoke tests" src="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/image/1" /> </a><br />
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+The major release maybe coming quicker than we thought. FROGGS++ for helping a lot out on this. However we need <b>more testers!!</b> Please contact us on <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&amp;server=irc.perl.org&amp;channel=%23sdl">#sdl</a> and we will set you up with an account on <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/">Smolder</a>.<br />
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+[Edit] Please read http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing on how to get started in test!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4856093544888768121?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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