perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>> Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
>>
>>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually, you're right.  Perhaps it depends on what kind of malloc the
>>>> program uses (i.e., whether it uses the Cygwin builtin malloc, or
>>>> something else).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's strange. How could Perl use something essentially different 
>>> than malloc? I thought it would all come down to brk or sbrk.
>>
>>
>>
>> Perl has its own malloc implementation.
> 
> 
> However, it should automatically undefine usemymalloc for configure if
> usethreads is defined, I'll need to check this.

Hmmm, no it isn't, see perl -V:
... usemymalloc=y ...

Now that I'm thinking about it it is just multiplicity which is defined
when building with threads.

I'll try to build with the system malloc to see if it makes a
difference.


Gerrit
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