[libxml-devel] Code snippet to crash libxml (segfault)

[Dan Janowski]

Are you sure it is the doc reference and not the GC finalizers  
running? Put a print statement after it and see what happens.

Dan

On Feb 6, 2008, at 17:11, Saurabh Nanda wrote:

> Why does the following code always cause a segfault on the last
> statement, when simply trying to refer to 'doc'? The answer to this
> could probably give me some pointers to my previous queries.
>
> require 'xml/libxml'
> x=XML::Parser.string("<test>something</test>")
> doc=x.parse
> x.parse
> puts '-- about to print refer to doc'
> doc
>
> Thanks,
> Saurabh.
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