Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variabletype

Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> Yes. It's always going to be possible for people to use (or write) code
> to mess with the internals, such as reference counts.
> 
> But I'm really not convinced that we should be offering documented functions
> in the default installation which offer such dangerous direct unguarded
> access to the internals. If people want to live dangerously, they should
> at least have to install an appropriate module from CPAN.
> 
> Nicholas Clark

The refcount checkers from Perl lang are useful to prove in a test that 
a leak was fixed.

• [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variable type by Dominic Hargreaves
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variable type by Brian Fraser
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variabletype by Tony Cook
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variable type by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variabletype by bulk88
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variable type by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #117793] Extend SvREFCNT* to work on any perl variabletype by Karl Williamson