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Actually what gellyfish said is spot on. All Perl_ routines on certain OS'es take an explicit aTHX_ pointer as the first argument. The macro equivelents (without the Perl_ prefix) transparently handle this. So Perl_av_clear() is what av_clear() resolves to, except that the latter handles the aTHX_ pointer as needed on a arch/os dependent basis.

Also, judging by the code av_clear() has not substantially changed since Perl has been in subversion. The version in bleadperl, is substantially unchanged, and the the Perl_ prefix was added in change #3522.

And for the record i dont consider this to be OT at all. Im sure somebody can learn something useful from it.

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In reply to Re^8: perlembed: mortalize an AV, get "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" - don't mortalize, leaks memory by demerphq
in thread perlembed: mortalize an AV, get "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" - don't mortalize, leaks memory by edan

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