From:	Nicholas Clark	Date:	Thu Jul 31 04:37:15 2008
Subject:	Re: Allocating a char* and returning to Perl from a C function

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:30:27AM +0100, Paulo Filipe Andrade wrote:

> I was thinking of something in the line of creating an SV of type pv  
> right away, and then using sv_2pvbyte_nolen to get the buffer.
> I think this should work, but I can't find a newSVpv function that  
> allows me to specify the string length I want without passing in a  
> char *.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Try newSV()

You'll need to use SvCUR_set() and SvPOK_on() once you're done to record
the length of the data in the PV buffer, and that the PV buffer is valid.

Nicholas Clark