Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> Yet another bummer of the current SVs is that they poorly fit into >> 'foreign memory' situations where the buffer is managed by something >> else than Perl. "No, thank you, Perl, keep your greedy fingers off >> this chunk. No, you may not play with it." > > > Out of curiousity, when might such a situation arise? When you >are embedding C in Perl, perhaps? Or calling an external library which returns a pointer to data. Right now we _have_ to copy it as there is no way to tell perl to (say) XFree() it rather than Safefree() it. Which is a pain when data is big. -- Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.
