On 01/05/2012 10:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Unconditional sv_mortalcopy sounds like the thing to do then, but a
> comment would help. And if this isn't a Perl bug, I would like to
> know what is.
Indeed. David, can you file a bug on this?
>
> BTW, shouldn't we be making some attempt to drop the result of the
> sv_mortalcopy? Or is it just assumed that it will be garbage-collected
> before the memory leak gets too bad?
>
>
Yes, it will be garbage collected before long. See discussion in perldoc
perlguts.
cheers
andrew