Re: Re: Re: Perl XS: garbage-collecting my malloc'd buffer

Yep, that's still the case. SvGROW checks xpv_len, which'll be some bizarre value if the SV's just an IV or NV. Undef might well give it fits too, at least so reads the 5.8.0 sources.

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Re^4: Perl XS: garbage-collecting my malloc'd buffer (sv_grow?) by tye (Sage) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:14 UTC
Wouldn't calling sv_grow() directly fix that? - tye	[reply]
Re^5: Perl XS: garbage-collecting my malloc'd buffer by Elian (Parson) on Mar 03, 2003 at 18:21 UTC
Yep, it would. SvGROW tries to be clever, and fails, unfortunately. (And the docs discourage using sv_grow directly, just to compound the potential problems)	[reply]