[libxml-devel] [ libxml-Bugs-19242 ] xpath causes GC crash

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Bugs item #19242, was opened at 2008-04-01 17:54
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Category: memory
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: xpath causes GC crash

Initial Comment:
Well, I debugged this one, but I don't know how to fix it right. The problem is this: in order to free an xpath object, the nodes it references need to be available. But ruby will happily free the document before freeing the xpath objects.

I think some kind of refcount might work, where the last xpath object calls xmlFreeDoc...

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Comment By: Joe Khoobyar (walltndr)
Date: 2008-04-02 00:16

Message:
Oops. :)

I meant patch #19252

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Comment By: Joe Khoobyar (walltndr)
Date: 2008-04-02 00:14

Message:
I have a patch for this that is working fine on both OS X (Leopard) and 64-bit Linux.  See patch #1952

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