Re: [MacPerl] How to send a "stop script" signal to MacPerl?

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 11:08 PM -0600 8/20/00, Joseph A. DiVerdi wrote:
>Unfortunately, there is a memory leak somewhere ...

As I understand it, there are several kinds of possible memory leaks:

*  MacPerl is simply broken

*  Your script is allocating stuff, but not releasing it

*  Your script is creating circular references, which Perl's GC is
    unable to resolve.

Of course, when I say "your script", this includes any other code
you're linking in.

One interesting test would involve:

*  putting the entire mainline code into a "for (;;) {}" block

*  putting every global variable you can find into a "my",
    just within the block

*  having the mainline code terminate every so often, falling
    back into the "for (;;) {}" block and recycling

I suspect that there may be a way for a MacPerl program to find
out how much memory it has left.  Perhaps Matthias or Chris can
tell us how to do that?

-r
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