Re: Texinfo 7.2.90 build with mingw.org's MinGW: testing

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 06:18:59PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > Yes, you are probably right about the wrong 'free' being used.
> > 
> > The function called at that line in LaTeX.pm is index_element_sort_string
> > in tta/C/main/manipulate_indices.c.  But I don't know which "free" call
> > would be responsible under that function or why the Perl malloc would
> > have been used.
> 
> I will investigate, there are probably not too many possibilities of
> Perl malloc use in relation to index_element_sort_string.

I realised there is actually an extra layer of code above that C file
that I referenced.  The real entry point is in the following file:

tta/perl/XSTexinfo/parser_document/IndicesXS.xs