finding memory leaks in perl XS
Project homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-Leak
Description
Devel::Leak has two functions NoteSV and CheckSV.
NoteSV walks the perl internal table of allocated SVs (scalar values) - (which
actually contains arrays and hashes too), and records their addresses in a
table. It returns a count of these "things", and stores a pointer to the
table (which is obtained from the heap using malloc()) in its argument.
Note that you need a perl built with -DDEBUGGING for
sv_dump() to print anything, but counts are valid in any perl.
If new "things" have been created, CheckSV may (also) report additional
"things" which are allocated by the sv_dump() code.
Package information
- Ports path
- devel/p5-Devel-Leak
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
- Categories
- devel, perl5
- Available flavors
- None listed
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
None listed.