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

[Saurabh Nanda]

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

Probably what you're saying is right. I don't fully understand what
effect the GC finalizers have, but I've tried the following script
(same script without the doc reference) in two cases:

1. ruby /tmp/xml/rb -- segfaults
2. copy paste script in an irb session. Doesn't segfault at that
moment. However, as soon as you exit irb, it segfaults.

require 'xml/libxml'
x=XML::Parser.string("<test>something</test>")
doc=x.parse
x.parse


What could the problem be?

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