| Subject: | memory leak on Darwin when accessing hwaddr |
The following script is causing a memory leak on Mac OS X v10.5.6 (intel):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use IO::Interface::Simple;
my $en0 = IO::Interface::Simple->new('en0');
my $hwaddr = $en0->hwaddr;
Perl version is 5.8.9 built with macports, also fails with the Mac OS X
default version of perl 5.8.8.
The report from "leaks" is:
Process 28529: 24218 nodes malloced for 1487 KB
Process 28529: 1 leak for 2560 total leaked bytes.
Leak: 0x869800 size=2560
0x0086981c 0x0086a0ca 0x00008049 0x00869a4c ........I...L...
0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00869a60 0x00869838 ........`...8...
0x0086a0ca 0x00008049 0x00869adc 0x00869ac0 ....I...........
0x00869af8 0x00000000 0x00869854 0x0086a0ca ........T.......
0x00008049 0x00869b04 0x00869afc 0x00869b14 I...............
0x00000000 0x00869870 0x0086a0ca 0x00008049 ....p.......I...
0x00869b40 0x00869b24 0x00869b5c 0x00000000 @...$...\.......
0x0086988c 0x0086a0ce 0x00008010 0x00869b60 ............`...
...
Call stack: [thread 0xa00aa720]: | start | main | perl_run |
Perl_runops_standard | Perl_pp_entersub | XS_IO__Interface_if_hwaddr |
getifaddrs | malloc | malloc_zone_malloc