In <20000930070622.3588.qmail@[...].com> , jlawrenc@[...].com writes:
:By assigning $ARGV[1] to a variable:
: $lang=$ARGV[1] || "e";
:and then later using it in hash references:
: $blort{'e'}="Happy day"
: print $blort{$lang}
:I sometimes core dump.

That seems very strange. If you can find a way of making it reliably
reproducible and then cut it down to a small test case it would be
very helpful. It initially sounds as if the original system memory
for the arguments is being moved out from under you, but as far as I
can see the arguments are _copied_ into newly acquired memory when
setting up the ARGV array. (In 5.6.0 this should be done by the code:
            SV *sv = newSVpv(argv[0],0);
at line 3180 of perl.c).

If that is the case, it sounds likely to be a more random corruption
that just happens to be hitting this variable. If so, I'd expect
you to see other variables causing a coredump from time to time as
well. This shouldn't be happening. :)

Hugo