From amprasad@hss.hns.com

Hi ,
  I found memory leak with the perl API "perl_eval_sv" .
  Iam attaching the c code that i used as a sample to come to the
conclusion that the
  api "perl_eval_sv" has got memory leaks .
  Iam stuck with this .
  Could you suggest some way out of this ?

#include <EXTERN.h>
#include <perl.h>

static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;
int main (int argc, char **argv, char **env)
  {
  char *embedding[] = { "", "-e", "0" };

  my_perl = perl_alloc();
  perl_construct( my_perl );

  perl_parse(my_perl, NULL, 3, embedding, NULL);
  perl_run(my_perl);
  SV* sv = newSVpv("Hello",0);
  while(1)
  {
  perl_eval_sv(sv, G_VOID | G_DISCARD);
  }
  perl_destruct(my_perl);
  perl_free(my_perl);
  }

The above code leaks memory which increases by 8k in every 5 minutes .

thanks
Ambika

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From @iabyn

This small leak has been fixed in the latest development versions of
Perl, by patch #18599. This fix will appear in Perl 5.8.1 and 5.10.0
when they are released.

Regards,

Dave M.

@iabyn - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'