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Devel::Peek contains functions which allows raw Perl
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datatypes to be manipulated from a Perl script. This is
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used by those who do XS programming to check that the data
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they are sending from C to Perl looks as they think it
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should look. The trick, then, is to know what the raw
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datatype is supposed to look like when it gets to Perl.
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This document offers some tips and hints to describe good
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and bad raw data.
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Devel::Peek supplies a Dump() function which can dump a
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raw Perl datatype, and mstat("marker") function to report
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on memory usage (if perl is compiled with corresponding
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option). The function DeadCode() provides statistics on
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the data "frozen" into inactive CV. Devel::Peek also
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supplies SvREFCNT(), SvREFCNT_inc(), and SvREFCNT_dec()
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which can query, increment, and decrement reference counts
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on SVs.
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