On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> <p>Perl tracks which memory is in use by reference counting is structures
> such as scalars....There should be a whole section on how to do it - who owns the
>reference
> of items on the argument stack, which API routines increase the reference
> count for you on the assumption that this will save you another call, which
> API routines hook the pointer you gave them into another structure without
> changing the reference count, and in effect take a reference from you.
As someone who recently had a go at XS programming, and who has read the
book, I have to agree with this one. I'm totatlly confused. HELP!
Could you, or anyone else, give me a pointer to where this kind of thing
is documented?
Mark.
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