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Updated to 3.020000 Updated DESCR Upstream changes: 3.020000 July 2012 * new destructor_method option 3.018000 June 2012 * new options ignore_preds, ignore_object, ignore_objects 3.016000 May 2012 * new ignore_class and ignore_classes options 3.014000 February 2012 * tests force Dumper sortkeys 3.012000 February 2012 * tests allow for "at line 123." with a "." 3.010000 February 2012 * constructor can return multiple values 3.008000 January 2012 * Try for Perl 5.6.0 too. * XSUB bits in the main docs. * Slightly more compact SYNOPSIS. 3.007_001 Sun Jan 6 19:58:00 PST 2012 * Cope with some tied glob warnings of perl 5.14 and up. 3.007_000 Sun Jan 1 17:29:41 PST 2012 * New developer's release * Add Kevin Ryde's XSUB doc
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Test::Weaken helps detect unfreed Perl data in arrays, hashes, scalars,
objects, etc, by descending recursively through structures and watching
that everything is freed. Unfreed data is a useless overhead and may
Importing devel/p5-Test-Weaken - p5 package for Test::Weaken 3.002000 as dependency for scheduled update of textproc/p5-XML-RAI to 1.3031. A memory leak occurs when a Perl data structure is destroyed but some of the contents of that structure are not freed. Leaked memory is a useless overhead. Leaks can significantly impact system performance. They can also cause an application to abend due to lack of memory. In Perl, circular references are a common cause of memory leaks. Circular references are allowed in Perl, but data structures containing circular references will leak memory unless the programmer takes specific measures to prevent leaks. Preventive measures include weakening the references and arranging to break the reference cycle just before the structure is destroyed. When using circular references, it is easy to misdesign or misimplement a scheme for preventing memory leaks. Mistakes of this kind have been hard to detect in a test suite. Test::Weaken allows easy detection of unfreed Perl data. Test::Weaken allows you to examine the unfreed data, even data that would usually have been made inaccessible. Test::Weaken frees the test structure, then looks to see if any of the contents of the structure were not actually deallocated. By default, Test::Weaken determines the contents of a data structure by examining arrays and hashes, by following references, and by following tied variables to their underlying object. Test::Weaken does this recursively to unlimited depth. Test::Weaken can deal with circular references without going into infinite loops. Test::Weaken will not visit the same Perl data object twice.
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cause an application to abend due to lack of memory.
Updated to 3.020000 Updated DESCR Upstream changes: 3.020000 July 2012 * new destructor_method option 3.018000 June 2012 * new options ignore_preds, ignore_object, ignore_objects 3.016000 May 2012 * new ignore_class and ignore_classes options 3.014000 February 2012 * tests force Dumper sortkeys 3.012000 February 2012 * tests allow for "at line 123." with a "." 3.010000 February 2012 * constructor can return multiple values 3.008000 January 2012 * Try for Perl 5.6.0 too. * XSUB bits in the main docs. * Slightly more compact SYNOPSIS. 3.007_001 Sun Jan 6 19:58:00 PST 2012 * Cope with some tied glob warnings of perl 5.14 and up. 3.007_000 Sun Jan 1 17:29:41 PST 2012 * New developer's release * Add Kevin Ryde's XSUB doc
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Normally if the last reference to something is discarded then it and
anything in it is freed automatically. But this might not occur due to
circular references, unexpected global variables or closures, or reference
counting mistakes in XSUBs.
Importing devel/p5-Test-Weaken - p5 package for Test::Weaken 3.002000 as dependency for scheduled update of textproc/p5-XML-RAI to 1.3031. A memory leak occurs when a Perl data structure is destroyed but some of the contents of that structure are not freed. Leaked memory is a useless overhead. Leaks can significantly impact system performance. They can also cause an application to abend due to lack of memory. In Perl, circular references are a common cause of memory leaks. Circular references are allowed in Perl, but data structures containing circular references will leak memory unless the programmer takes specific measures to prevent leaks. Preventive measures include weakening the references and arranging to break the reference cycle just before the structure is destroyed. When using circular references, it is easy to misdesign or misimplement a scheme for preventing memory leaks. Mistakes of this kind have been hard to detect in a test suite. Test::Weaken allows easy detection of unfreed Perl data. Test::Weaken allows you to examine the unfreed data, even data that would usually have been made inaccessible. Test::Weaken frees the test structure, then looks to see if any of the contents of the structure were not actually deallocated. By default, Test::Weaken determines the contents of a data structure by examining arrays and hashes, by following references, and by following tied variables to their underlying object. Test::Weaken does this recursively to unlimited depth. Test::Weaken can deal with circular references without going into infinite loops. Test::Weaken will not visit the same Perl data object twice.
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Updated to 3.020000 Updated DESCR Upstream changes: 3.020000 July 2012 * new destructor_method option 3.018000 June 2012 * new options ignore_preds, ignore_object, ignore_objects 3.016000 May 2012 * new ignore_class and ignore_classes options 3.014000 February 2012 * tests force Dumper sortkeys 3.012000 February 2012 * tests allow for "at line 123." with a "." 3.010000 February 2012 * constructor can return multiple values 3.008000 January 2012 * Try for Perl 5.6.0 too. * XSUB bits in the main docs. * Slightly more compact SYNOPSIS. 3.007_001 Sun Jan 6 19:58:00 PST 2012 * Cope with some tied glob warnings of perl 5.14 and up. 3.007_000 Sun Jan 1 17:29:41 PST 2012 * New developer's release * Add Kevin Ryde's XSUB doc
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Test::Weaken is named for the strategy used to detect leaks. References
are taken to the test objects and all their contents, then those
references are weakened and expected to be then freed.
Importing devel/p5-Test-Weaken - p5 package for Test::Weaken 3.002000 as dependency for scheduled update of textproc/p5-XML-RAI to 1.3031. A memory leak occurs when a Perl data structure is destroyed but some of the contents of that structure are not freed. Leaked memory is a useless overhead. Leaks can significantly impact system performance. They can also cause an application to abend due to lack of memory. In Perl, circular references are a common cause of memory leaks. Circular references are allowed in Perl, but data structures containing circular references will leak memory unless the programmer takes specific measures to prevent leaks. Preventive measures include weakening the references and arranging to break the reference cycle just before the structure is destroyed. When using circular references, it is easy to misdesign or misimplement a scheme for preventing memory leaks. Mistakes of this kind have been hard to detect in a test suite. Test::Weaken allows easy detection of unfreed Perl data. Test::Weaken allows you to examine the unfreed data, even data that would usually have been made inaccessible. Test::Weaken frees the test structure, then looks to see if any of the contents of the structure were not actually deallocated. By default, Test::Weaken determines the contents of a data structure by examining arrays and hashes, by following references, and by following tied variables to their underlying object. Test::Weaken does this recursively to unlimited depth. Test::Weaken can deal with circular references without going into infinite loops. Test::Weaken will not visit the same Perl data object twice.
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Updated to 3.020000 Updated DESCR Upstream changes: 3.020000 July 2012 * new destructor_method option 3.018000 June 2012 * new options ignore_preds, ignore_object, ignore_objects 3.016000 May 2012 * new ignore_class and ignore_classes options 3.014000 February 2012 * tests force Dumper sortkeys 3.012000 February 2012 * tests allow for "at line 123." with a "." 3.010000 February 2012 * constructor can return multiple values 3.008000 January 2012 * Try for Perl 5.6.0 too. * XSUB bits in the main docs. * Slightly more compact SYNOPSIS. 3.007_001 Sun Jan 6 19:58:00 PST 2012 * Cope with some tied glob warnings of perl 5.14 and up. 3.007_000 Sun Jan 1 17:29:41 PST 2012 * New developer's release * Add Kevin Ryde's XSUB doc
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There's options to ignore intentional globals, or include extra associated
data held elsewhere, or invoke an explicit destructor. Unfreed parts are
reported and can be passed to other modules such as Devel::FindRef to try
to discover why they weren't freed.
Importing devel/p5-Test-Weaken - p5 package for Test::Weaken 3.002000 as dependency for scheduled update of textproc/p5-XML-RAI to 1.3031. A memory leak occurs when a Perl data structure is destroyed but some of the contents of that structure are not freed. Leaked memory is a useless overhead. Leaks can significantly impact system performance. They can also cause an application to abend due to lack of memory. In Perl, circular references are a common cause of memory leaks. Circular references are allowed in Perl, but data structures containing circular references will leak memory unless the programmer takes specific measures to prevent leaks. Preventive measures include weakening the references and arranging to break the reference cycle just before the structure is destroyed. When using circular references, it is easy to misdesign or misimplement a scheme for preventing memory leaks. Mistakes of this kind have been hard to detect in a test suite. Test::Weaken allows easy detection of unfreed Perl data. Test::Weaken allows you to examine the unfreed data, even data that would usually have been made inaccessible. Test::Weaken frees the test structure, then looks to see if any of the contents of the structure were not actually deallocated. By default, Test::Weaken determines the contents of a data structure by examining arrays and hashes, by following references, and by following tied variables to their underlying object. Test::Weaken does this recursively to unlimited depth. Test::Weaken can deal with circular references without going into infinite loops. Test::Weaken will not visit the same Perl data object twice.
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Updated to 3.020000 Updated DESCR Upstream changes: 3.020000 July 2012 * new destructor_method option 3.018000 June 2012 * new options ignore_preds, ignore_object, ignore_objects 3.016000 May 2012 * new ignore_class and ignore_classes options 3.014000 February 2012 * tests force Dumper sortkeys 3.012000 February 2012 * tests allow for "at line 123." with a "." 3.010000 February 2012 * constructor can return multiple values 3.008000 January 2012 * Try for Perl 5.6.0 too. * XSUB bits in the main docs. * Slightly more compact SYNOPSIS. 3.007_001 Sun Jan 6 19:58:00 PST 2012 * Cope with some tied glob warnings of perl 5.14 and up. 3.007_000 Sun Jan 1 17:29:41 PST 2012 * New developer's release * Add Kevin Ryde's XSUB doc
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Test::Weaken examines structures to an unlimited depth and is safe on
circular structures.
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