Embedding Julia in MATLAB mex: memory leaks

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I am writing some simple MATLAB mex interfaces that allow me to pass large amounts of data between Julia and MATLAB the two with as little copying as possible. I was hoping to gain some insight into how to debug code that uses the GC and some of the other functions in the julia.h file. I have read what is available on the Embedding Julia page on the main page but much is still unclear to me. Here is a simple test case

#include <julia.h>
#include <mex.h>
#ifdef _OS_LINUX_
#include <dlfcn.h>
#endif

int init(){
#ifdef _OS_LINUX_
        if (!dlopen("/usr/local/julia/lib/libjulia.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL))
        {
            mexErrMsgTxt(dlerror());
        }
#endif
    if(jl_is_initialized()) {
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n");
        mexPrintf("Starting bytes in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n");

        mexPrintf("Clean with jl_clear_malloc_data\n");
        jl_clear_malloc_data();
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Leftover in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());

        mexPrintf("Clean with gc()\n");
        jl_value_t *gc = jl_eval_string("gc()");
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Leftover in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());

        mexPrintf("Clean with jl_gc_collect\n");
        jl_gc_collect(1);
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Leftover in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());

        mexPrintf("Clean with workspace\n");
        jl_value_t *workspace = jl_eval_string("workspace()");
        JL_GC_PUSH1(&workspace);
        JL_GC_POP();
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Leftover in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());
        // jl_atexit_hook(0);
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n");
        mexPrintf("Shutdown old Julia instance\n");
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n\n");
    }else{
        jl_init();
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n");
        mexPrintf("Initiated a Julia instance\n");
        mexPrintf("---------------------------\n\n");
    }

    return jl_is_initialized();
}

void jl_atexit_hook_0() {
    jl_atexit_hook(0);
}

void mexFunction(int nl, mxArray *pl[], int nr, const mxArray *pr[]) {
    mexPrintf("==========================\n");
    mexPrintf("\tIN MEX\n");
    mexPrintf("==========================\n");
    
    if(init()){
        mexPrintf("Run JL Command\n");
        jl_value_t * ret = jl_eval_string("sqrt(2");
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Leftover in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());
        
        mexPrintf("PUSH\n");
        JL_GC_PUSH1(&ret);
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Left over bytes in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());
        
        mexPrintf("POP\n");
        JL_GC_POP();
        mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
        mexPrintf("Left over bytes in GC %d\n\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());

    }else{
        mexErrMsgTxt("Julia not Initiated");
    }
    mexAtExit(jl_atexit_hook_0);
    mexPrintf("Left over bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_diff_total_bytes());
    mexPrintf("Total bytes in GC %d\n", jl_gc_total_bytes());
    mexPrintf("Time in GC %d\n\n\n", jl_gc_total_hrtime());
    return;
}

I need to use code similar to run Julia code several times from MATLAB, and I do not want to have close and start a new Julia instance in between calls because this decreases efficiency. I am not as knowledgeable as I need to be to understand if I am/am not allocate memory without deallocation with my methods. Any insight would be helpful.

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BTW: I am running Ubuntu, MATLAB 2012b, C90 and Julia v0.6.3