Re: [Announce]: 2.6.0 snapshot available

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Jason E. Stewart wrote:

> "Steven N. Hirsch" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I'll try to find time later this week to do a test build myself.
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> Please wait for the next snapshot - it fixes *all* of those problems.
>
> There was an error in how exceptions were being generated. They were
> being cleaned up by the compiler, but Perl was still trying to use the
> pointer. Now Perl makes a copy of the information and manages the
> memory - so the original information gets deleted in the catch(), but
> the copy is used by Perl error printing mechanism, and then the copy
> get's cleaned up.
>
> So, no more segfault, no leaks either.

Yow!  That's great news.  I always suspected that Perl was using an 
incorrect or corrupted thread context, but was never able to get the 
available AIX debuggers to cooperate and show me the specifics.

I would prefer to be using XML::Xerces, but was forced to drop back to 
XML::LibXML for production deployment due to problems under AIX.

Steve

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