[perl-win32-gui-users] The memory leak problem (fixed, I hope ;)

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I said I'd report when I know more, so here goes...

The problem isn't with DefWindowProc at all (in fact 
DefWindowProc doesn't do anything except default handling - 
duh!). My apologies for being misleading.

The memory usage in the task manager thingee is useful, but 
inherently misleading. It isn't a cache allocation thing or anything 
like that, again sorry for being misleading.

The problem is with the C-perl interface. The WindowMsgLoop 
needs a good perl start, and end block:
dSP;
ENTER;
SAVETMPS;

....

FREETMPS;
LEAVE;

This is because it calls into the perl interpreter. The Dialog XSUB 
doesn't need those blocks explicitly however because they are 
added by xsubpp. However because the Dialog XSUB pretty much 
never exits (and therefore calls FREETMPS) it accumulates TMPs. 
There are (I believe) two ways to fix this:
1/ make the dialog XSUB return after processing one message, 
and call it from perl like
while( Win32::GUI::Dialog() ) {
}
2/ give the Dialog XSUB an explicit block around the perl interpreter 
calls it makes. I believe that this will work fine, but I haven't tested 
it. I implemented (1) in my copy of win32::GUI.

NB:
It may be necessary to add blocks in other places (in fact I'm sure 
of it), but this is the only problem I am aware of.
I can't create and distribute a patch on work time, but in my own 
time (of which I have very little unfortunately) I will create a patch for 
0.0.502, and send this to Aldo, if he so desires.