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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Adrian Harris wrote:
> 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
> Site configuration information for perl 5.00502:
> alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
This is odd. Since you are not using perl's malloc(), perl doesn't
redefine it for you. I just tested it myself to confirm this.
In 5.6.0, even with usemymalloc=y, perl also won't redefine malloc() for
you.
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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