Re: Safefree() not so safe?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, bulk 88 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's possible the reason it wasn't crashing on your machine is that
>> your Perl is configured to use malloc/free instead of Perl's own
>> allocator.
>>
>> You can figure that out by checking perl -V for usemymalloc.
>>
>> If it's "=n", Perl is using whatever native calls are available on your
>> system.
>>
>> If it's "=y", Perl is using its own internal wrapper.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
>
> That information should not be used. Whatever implements Newx and
> Safefree under the hood should be opaque. Win32 Perl has
> "usemymalloc=n", but a Newx block isn't a malloc block.

I didn't say it was.

I was merely trying to explain why it might crash on one system and not another.

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)