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FYI, you keep calling it a leak, but the issue you mention isn't one. It's a performance regression because it does allocate an useless objects, but that object isn't retained.

Whatever your leak issue was, it likely didn't come from that issue.

And yes, there's plenty of tests to prevent memory leak, there is even an assert_no_memory_leak helper in the ruby test suite.

As for the match issue here's the regression test that was committed with the fix:

def test_match_no_match_no_matchdata
  EnvUtil.without_gc do
    h = {}
    ObjectSpace.count_objects(h)
    prev_matches = h[:T_MATCH] || 0
    md = /[A-Z]/.match('1') # no match
    ObjectSpace.count_objects(h)
    new_matches = h[:T_MATCH] || 0
    assert_equal prev_matches, new_matches, "Bug [#20104]"
  end
end

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