"Bad free() ignored (PERL_CORE)" in XML::LibXSLT

Anton Berezin tobez at tobez.org
Tue Jun 6 07:49:00 PDT 2006


[removing freebsd-gnome from this]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:37:53AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:23:09PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:02:26AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I'm running the Perl module XML::LibXSLT, which is a Perl
> > > binding to the Gnome libsxlt library. This consistently
> > > generates a "Bad free() ignored (PERL_CORE)" error.
> >
> >  [...]
> >
> > So it appears to be a bug in XML::LibXSLT XS part, which ideally should be
> > found and corrected.
> 
> Ah, many thanks. I also now see that this has in fact been
> reported several other times, in the bug track for
> XML::LibXSLT--not sure why I missed this before.
> 
> I'll contact the author and see if he can do anything about it.

Oh and by the way, I can reproduce the problem on i386 but not on amd64,
both RELENG_6 and perl 5.8.8.

\Anton.
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