Marc Lambrichs wrote:
>  I've got a bad_free error on my hands. If I'm not mistaken, my module 
>  wants to free some memory space that's already been freed, right?
>  What can I do to find the exact variable that we're talking about here?
>  What does the "2912" in the following line mean?
>  
>  [Sat Dec  4 18:59:20 2004] (eval 2912): freeing transformation dictionnary
>  [Sat Dec  4 18:59:20 2004] (eval 2912): Bad free() ignored (PERL_CORE) 
>  at /var/www/general/lib/perl/Melange/Control.pm line
>  165.

I believe that's the 'eval sequence number' (which I hope I'm interpreting
correctly) would make it the 2912 th eval encountered in the file.

Explanation for second error:

    Bad free() ignored
        (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never
        been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by
        setting environment variable "PERL_BADFREE" to 0.

        This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard"
        dynamic linking, like "AIX" and "OS/2". It is a bug of "Berkeley DB"
        which is left unnoticed if "DB" uses *forgiving* system malloc().

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