Devel::Leak 0.03

Devel::Leak is a utility for looking for perl objects that are not reclaimed.

SYNOPSIS

use Devel::Leak;
... setup code

my $count = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);

... code that may leak

Devel::Leak::CheckSV($handle);

Devel::Leak has two functions NoteSV and CheckSV.
NoteSV walks the perl internal table of allocated SVs (scalar values) - (which actually contains arrays and hashes too), and records their addresses in a table. It returns a count of these "things", and stores a pointer to the table (which is obtained from the heap using malloc()) in its argument.

CheckSV is passed argument which holds a pointer to a table created by NoteSV. It re-walks the perl-internals and calls sv_dump() for any "things" which did not exist when NoteSV was called. It returns a count of the number of "things" now allocated.

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· Perl