Re: execute_perl leaks memory, patched

[Peter Zelezny <zed@linux.com>]

On 2001.06.14 08:50:09 +1000 Martin Persson wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed that execute_perl() in perl.c leaks memory after a while... If
> you use a timer in a script with a short interval it will eat up quite
> alot,
> it chewed up 128MB over a day for me with a timer interval at 100ms...
> 
> Anyway, i wrote a patch that uses perl_call_args instead of perl_eval_pv,
> it still evaluates the perl function so that an error will be caught and
> printed out instead of crashing xchat... Tell me what you think, here's
> the diff -ur1 patch for xchat 1.7.7

It looks good to me, but I really don't know much about this perlembed
stuff. Any chance this could break compatability in some way? I noticed
escape_quotes() isn't used anymore.

Could some people that use/write scripts check this out?

-- 
Peter Zelezny. <zed@linux.com>

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