Re: Memory...growing, and growing

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Document -DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT

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diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod
index 68dad59..05e8751 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlhack.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhack.pod
@@ -2915,6 +2915,10 @@ errors within eval or require, seeing C<S_doeval> in the call stack
 is a good sign of these.  Fixing these leaks is non-trivial,
 unfortunately, but they must be fixed eventually.
 
+B<NOTE 4>: L<DynaLoader> will not clean up after itself completely
+unless Perl is built with the Configure option
+C<-Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT>.
+
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