[ID 20000314.004] embedded perl causes problems when dynamicallyloaded

This is a bug report for perl from adrianh@tensilica.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00502.


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I have had a hard time getting an embedded perl interpreter to work as a dynamically loaded module. I kept getting 'Bad free() ignored' at run time. It turns out that perl has its own memory management - fine, but it redefines malloc and free etc. That is bad when the library is dynamically loaded since the perl free routine 'shows up' after memory has already been managed by the libc routines. This might be fixable by passing different flags to the dynamic loader, but I do not have access to that routine since it is controled by a third party tool. 

I consider it a bug that perl redefines malloc and free. I think they should be perl_malloc and perl_free or something like that. 

As long as the names are not changed, it will be impossible to dynamically load a perl interpreter.

Thanks
Adrian


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Site configuration information for perl 5.00502:

Configured by source at Wed Jun 23 13:40:14 PDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.33, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux sonata 2.0.33 #49 wed jul 22 04:14:00 pdt 1998 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/xtensa/beta-source/cvsroot/StandardTools/perl5.005_02/../gdbm-1.7.3'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/xtensa/beta-source/cvsroot/StandardTools/perl5.005_02/../gdbm-1.7.3'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/xtensa/beta-source/cvsroot/StandardTools/perl5.005_02/../gdbm-1.7.3'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/xtensa/beta-source/cvsroot/StandardTools/perl5.005_02/../gdbm-1.7.3 /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/xtensa/beta-source/cvsroot/StandardTools/perl5.005_02/../gdbm-1.7.3'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00502:
    /usr/xtensa/stools/lib/perl5/5.00502/i686-linux
    /usr/xtensa/stools/lib/perl5/5.00502
    /usr/xtensa/stools/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
    /usr/xtensa/stools/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00502:
    HOME=/home/adrianh
    LANG (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=.:/home/adrianh/bin:/usr/xtensa/stools/bin:/home/adrianh/bin/xtools/bin:/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ucb/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/libexec:/usr/local/lsf/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/cad/cds/S97BNC/tools/bin:/cad/cds/S97BNC/tools/dfII/bin:/cad/syssc2/vera-4.3-solaris2.5/bin:/cad/summit/HDLScore/bin:/cad/signalscan/solaris/signalscan-6.2/sparc-solaris/bin:/home/davel/0in_stable/stable.sun/sun4os5/bin:/cad/continuum/vtv197:/cad/modeltech/modeltech_v5.2:/cad/interHDL/checkit-1.18:/cad/interHDL/coverIt-1.10:/cad/interHDL/verilint-4.13:/cad/interHDL/intervhdl-1.57:/cad/interHDL/testit-2.06:/cad/vcs/vcs5.0.1A/sun_sparc_solaris_5.4/bin:/cad/cds/S97BNC/tools/bin:/cad/cds/S97BNC/tools/dfII/bin:/cad/cds/S97BNC/tools/pcb/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20000314.004] embedded perl causes problems when dynamicallyloaded by Adrian Harris
• Re: [ID 20000314.004] embedded perl causes problems when dynamicallyloaded by Andy Dougherty
• Re: [ID 20000314.004] embedded perl causes problems when dynamically loaded by Gurusamy Sarathy