Hi all,

I am trying to determine where a problem that is causing a program, that
makes extensive use of XML::LibXSLT functions, to dump core. 

The problem popped up last week after I upgraded a lot of things from
the FreeBSD ports collection, including libxml2 and libxslt.

Based on debugging output, everything is fine up to and including the
first call to a registered XSLT function. That is, I can print to STDERR
right up to the point where I am returning a result. From there, the
disk starts to page noisily and eventually the Perl interpreter core
dumps.

I have tried this with both the ports and CVS versions of XML::LibXSLT
and the ports version of XML::LibXML. The CVS version of XML::LibXML
will not pass tests.

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FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE
Perl 5.8.2        (FBSD ports)
libxml 2.6.4      (FBSD ports)
libxslt 1.1.2     (FBSD ports rev. "_2") 
XML::LibXML 1.56  (FBSD ports)
XML::LibXSLT 1.53 (CVS)

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Unfortunately, I didn't think to write the exact version numbers for the
various xml/xslt libraries because, you know, it worked. :-(

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I tried to build XML::LibXML from CVS but it failed tests 't/02parse'
[1] and 't/17callbacks' [2]. 

Both 'XML::LibXML - t/17callbacks' and 'XML::LibXSLT t/10functions'
tests squawked about "perl in free(): warning: chunk is already free"
warning. The latter, however, did not fail.

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Is this a known failure? If it is not could someone suggest the next
step for tracking down the problem? If it really is just a question of
ripping out all the functions and adding them one at a time, I will do
that but it's not my first choice.

Thanks,

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[1] Test returned status 0 (wstat 139, 0x8b)
    test program seems to have generated a core
    DIED. FAILED tests 211-476
    Failed 266/476 tests, 44.12% okay

[2] ibid. FAILED tests 11-38 / Failed 28/38 tests, 
     26.32% okay

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