Re: self contains no data

On 13/09/2012 00:33, Bruce Miller wrote:
> I did find something curious.  So, XML::LibXML nodes are
> references to integers.  I don't know if those numbers "mean"
> anything --- in ancient times, they were constant, and
> you could test node equality by $$a == $$b.
> At some point (an update related to thread safety?),
> they're no longer constant, and there's a specific
> method $a->isSameNode($b).  Would be interested in the back-story.

These numbers are raw C pointers.

> At any rate, printing out the dereferenced integer while walking
> the tree gives me nice 8-digit numbers like 54824480...
> until the broken node which has 12 digits (249739024344)
> and then I get a segfault before any of the Node methods
> can tell me anything about the node!

The 12-digit number seems to be a corrupted pointer, so the previous 
operation on that node is probably the culprit. Can you tell what the 
previous operation is? Or how the node is created if it's not 
manipulated in any way?

Nick

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