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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-03-16 14:27:49 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-03-16 20:42:18 -0600 |
| commit | 3e66cf746848e9cdd3d001d1261e869c33ab2651 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d7d33c3ef4b962ebc5c12f552751068ac656bbe /util.c | |
| parent | e1c8059fb886c7bbbdf9626cb16453477a1b50eb (diff) | |
| download | perl-3e66cf746848e9cdd3d001d1261e869c33ab2651.tar.gz | |
perlre: Note savepv() allocations need to be freed
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1065,8 +1065,10 @@ Perl_cntrl_to_mnemonic(const U8 c) Perl's version of C<strdup()>. Returns a pointer to a newly allocated string which is a duplicate of C<pv>. The size of the string is determined by C<strlen()>, which means it may not contain embedded C<NUL> -characters and must have a trailing C<NUL>. The memory allocated for the new -string can be freed with the C<Safefree()> function. +characters and must have a trailing C<NUL>. To prevent memory leaks, the +memory allocated for the new string needs to be freed when no longer needed. +This can be done with the L</C<Safefree> function, or +L<C<SAFEFREEPV>perlguts/SAFEFREEPV>. On some platforms, Windows for example, all allocated memory owned by a thread is deallocated when that thread ends. So if you need that not to happen, you |