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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:27:21 PST, Adrian Harris wrote: >I have had a hard time getting an embedded perl interpreter to work as a dynamically loa >ded 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 h >as 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 contr >oled by a third party tool. > >I consider it a bug that perl redefines malloc and free. I think they should be perl_mal >loc and perl_free or something like that. This issue has been fixed for good for Perl 5.6.0. #define EMBEDMYMALLOC in older versions of Perl, or simply don't build Perl to use its own malloc. Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.comThread Previous