Re: generic refcounted object perl binding

[Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au>]

Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> writes:
> I wanted to link to some XS tutorial covering all this, but the
> example at <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlxstut.html#EXAMPLE-6> actually
> uses a different pattern to achieve the same thing: it mortalizes both
> the referent and the reference,

I suppose mortalizing intermediate parts guards against leaking them if
some of the construction code throws an error.  Not that there'd be much
chance of that in that example (maybe weirdness like a tied input array
which decided to croak on every second access ... :-).  A fairly decent
idea in general though.


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