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Documentation for the perlapi document?

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Feb 02, 2005 at 18:55 UTC ( [id://427372]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there any document that explains the contents of perlapi? Like what the parameters are?

In this specific case, what the int id parameters to the New/Newc/Newz memory allocation apis are?

But more generally, anything that goes into a little more depth about those functions and macros?

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Re: Documentation for the perlapi document?
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Feb 02, 2005 at 19:03 UTC
    is there any document that explains the contents of perlapi?
    Yes, its called perlguts. In particular:
    The first argument C<x> was a "magic cookie" that was used to keep track of who called the macro, to help when debugging memory problems. However, the current code makes no use of this feature (most Perl developers now use run-time memory checkers), so this argument can be any number.

    Dave.

[reply]

      Thanks. I was kind of afraid that might be the case.

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