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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Rather than copying the malloc()ed string into an SV and then free()ing it, check out sv_usepvn which can directly take over the buffer. Sorry, I don't know the XS-fu to create a typemap to make your wrapper use this automatically.

    Maybe that useful function should be re-named sv_borg to make it stand out more.

    • [sv_usepvn]

      Nice! I was looking for something like that. In fact, I always blindly assumed that the 'char *' typemap would only copy the pointer and not the whole vector (till I realized that it does exactly that yesterday).

      I think this can be turned into a typemap easily. AFAIK, there is no default typemap for 'const char*' so I can use that.

      Maybe that useful function should be re-named sv_borg to make it stand out more.
       
      :-) Guess what: the curious Poison() macro did immediately spring into my
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