Excerpts from Alex Hunsaker's message of jue jun 21 10:27:41 -0400 2012:
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Alex Hunsaker's message of vie feb 10 16:53:05 -0300 2012:
> >
> >> Seems like we missed the fact that we still did SvUTF8_on() in sv2cstr
> >> and SvPVUTF8() when turning a perl string into a cstring.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > So I played a bit with this patch, and touched it a bit mainly just to
> > add some more comments; and while at it I noticed that some of the
> > functions in Util.xs might leak some memory, so I made an attempt to
> > plug them, as in the attached patch (which supersedes yours).
>
> I think most of these leaks go back to 9.0. Dunno if its worth
> backpatching them...
Well, nobody has ever complained about them so maybe they're just not
worth the effort.
> > to test the problem in the original report, I notice that we now have a
> > regression failure:
>
> > I'm not really sure what to do here -- maybe have a second expected file
> > for that test is a good enough answer? Or should I just take the test
> > out? Opinions please.
>
> I think we have broken that check twice so it seems like it would be
> nice to keep. But I don't feel *to* strongly about it.
Hmm, if we're broken it then it's probably best to keep it.
> The comment and cleanups all look good to me.
Thanks for the review.
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