$ valgrind perl -e'my $x; $x = \$x; undef $x if $ARGV[0]' 1 ==21363== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==21363== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==21363== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==21363== Command: perl -emy\ $x;\ $x\ =\ \\$x;\ undef\ $x\ if\ $ARGV[0] 1 ==21363== ==21363== Warning: bad signal number 0 in sigaction() ==21363== ==21363== HEAP SUMMARY: ==21363== in use at exit: 80,794 bytes in 609 blocks ==21363== total heap usage: 786 allocs, 177 frees, 93,378 bytes allocated ==21363== ==21363== LEAK SUMMARY: ==21363== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21363== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21363== possibly lost: 14,538 bytes in 354 blocks ==21363== still reachable: 66,256 bytes in 255 blocks ==21363== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21363== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==21363== ==21363== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==21363== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 22 from 7) $ valgrind perl -e'my $x; $x = \$x; undef $x if $ARGV[0]' 0 ==21366== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==21366== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==21366== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==21366== Command: perl -emy\ $x;\ $x\ =\ \\$x;\ undef\ $x\ if\ $ARGV[0] 0 ==21366== ==21366== Warning: bad signal number 0 in sigaction() ==21366== ==21366== HEAP SUMMARY: ==21366== in use at exit: 80,794 bytes in 609 blocks ==21366== total heap usage: 786 allocs, 177 frees, 93,378 bytes allocated ==21366== ==21366== LEAK SUMMARY: ==21366== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21366== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21366== possibly lost: 14,538 bytes in 354 blocks ==21366== still reachable: 66,256 bytes in 255 blocks ==21366== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==21366== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==21366== ==21366== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==21366== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 22 from 7)