Bug#528332: memory leak on perl 5.10

[Dmitry E. Oboukhov]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-19
Severity: grave

I've tested this script (see below) under perl 5.8.8 and 5.8.8 does
not has memory leak.

For reproducing this bug i wrote an easy script:

$ cat test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

sub get_set
{
    our @set = map { int rand 1000 } 0 .. 50;
    return \@set;
}

{
    my $set = get_set;
    printf "%s\n", join ", ", @$set;
    redo;
}


If we run test.pl under perl 5.8, then it will allocate 832 kB DATA
memory and can work for a long time (my test worked two hours, but 832
kb was remained all this time)

If we run test.pl under debian/stable, perl 5.10, then
expenditure of memory will constantly go up.

This bug makes impossible using processes which need a long time to
fulfil

PS: Typical get_set is replaced to 'new s-Object'
and return \@set is replaced to 'bless $link, $class'

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